{"id":58588,"date":"2012-01-06T07:25:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T14:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=58588"},"modified":"2012-01-06T07:25:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T14:25:42","slug":"snowboardings-beginnings-jake-burtons-original-maple-wood-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=58588","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarding&#8217;s Beginnings: Jake Burton&#8217;s original maple-wood boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Many kids in the 1960s grew up riding a Snurfer in the winter months \u00e2\u20ac\u201d after all, Sherman Poppen&#8217;s invention sold thousands of boards \u00e2\u20ac\u201d including Jake Burton. Although he was a talented skier, attended the University of Colorado and hoped to join the ski team before a collarbone fracture, Jake pursued his love for riding single-plank devices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Upon graduating from New York University in 1977, Jake worked in the\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/article\/20120106\/NEWS\/120109895\/1078&amp;ParentProfile=1055\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many kids in the 1960s grew up riding a Snurfer in the winter months \u00e2\u20ac\u201d after all, Sherman Poppen&#8217;s invention sold thousands of boards \u00e2\u20ac\u201d including Jake Burton. Although he was a talented skier, attended the University of Colorado and hoped to join the ski team before a collarbone fracture, Jake pursued his love for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58589,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58588\/revisions\/58589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}