{"id":94585,"date":"2014-05-27T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=94585"},"modified":"2014-05-27T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T00:58:00","slug":"skateboarding-why-skate-legend-bob-burnquist-is-stoked-for-x-games-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=94585","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarding &#8211; Why skate legend Bob Burnquist is stoked for X Games Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When skateboarder Bob Burnquist started competing in the X Games, the action-sports competition featured disciplines like windsurfing, street luge, and barefoot waterski jumping. Twenty years and a revolving door of extreme sports later, the lanky Brazilian is still standing at the top of the ramp, vying for more X Games hardware than will fit in his overstuffed trophy case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yet even after all these years, you\u2019d be hard pressed to find a more enthusiastic competitor in skateboarding, or a nicer guy. The man is\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/action-sports\/skate\/post\/why-skate-legend-bob-burnquist-is-stoked-for-x-games-austin\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When skateboarder Bob Burnquist started competing in the X Games, the action-sports competition featured disciplines like windsurfing, street luge, and barefoot waterski jumping. Twenty years and a revolving door of extreme sports later, the lanky Brazilian is still standing at the top of the ramp, vying for more X Games hardware than will fit in [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94585","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=94585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94586,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94585\/revisions\/94586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}