{"id":90925,"date":"2014-02-23T11:01:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T18:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90925"},"modified":"2014-02-23T11:01:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T18:01:58","slug":"american-born-snowboarder-competing-for-russia-wins-2nd-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90925","title":{"rendered":"American-Born Snowboarder Competing for Russia Wins 2nd Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Facing a nearly impossible deficit against a four-time world champion he&#8217;d never outraced, all the unorthodox choices snowboarder Vic Wild made to keep his career alive converged over 30 glorious seconds of perfection.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" style=\"text-align: left;\">His banged-up body patched together by the best doctors his adopted country can provide, his perfectly assembled board riding like a lightning bolt, his newfound fans screaming his name and waving a very different kind of red, white and blue, the man who eschewed his homeland for his heart, made Olympic history.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Gold for Russia. Again. And maybe more than a little vindication\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/wireStory\/wild-completes-sweep-snowboard-parallel-slalom-22629986\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing a nearly impossible deficit against a four-time world champion he&#8217;d never outraced, all the unorthodox choices snowboarder Vic Wild made to keep his career alive converged over 30 glorious seconds of perfection. His banged-up body patched together by the best doctors his adopted country can provide, his perfectly assembled board riding like a lightning [&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-90925","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\/90925","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=90925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90926,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90925\/revisions\/90926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}