{"id":69958,"date":"2012-09-16T10:17:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T17:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69958"},"modified":"2012-09-16T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T17:17:07","slug":"snowboard-skateboard-pioneer-who-stunt-doubled-for-james-bond-dies-of-heart-attack-at-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69958","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard &#038; Skateboard pioneer, who stunt-doubled for James Bond dies of heart attack at 61"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The godfather of snowboarding &#8211; who even stunt-doubled as James Bond on the slopes &#8211; has died, aged just 61.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tom Sims, passed away from a heart attack on Wednesday at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, California, according to his sister, Margie Sims Kilinger.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sims was a pioneer in both skateboarding and snowboarding, helping bring the latter to the masses by pushing ski resorts to embrace the little known sport in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8216;He was the godfather of all board sports,&#8217; Michael Brooke, publisher of Concrete Wave Magazine, told the Los Angeles Times\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2203854\/Tom-Sims-dies-Godfather-snowboarding-stunt-doubled-James-Bond-slopes-dies-heart-attack-61.html\" 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>The godfather of snowboarding &#8211; who even stunt-doubled as James Bond on the slopes &#8211; has died, aged just 61. Tom Sims, passed away from a heart attack on Wednesday at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, California, according to his sister, Margie Sims Kilinger. Sims was a pioneer in both skateboarding and snowboarding, helping bring the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skateboard-mountain-board","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69958","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=69958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69961,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69958\/revisions\/69961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}