{"id":12275,"date":"2009-12-10T09:38:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T17:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12275"},"modified":"2009-12-10T09:58:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T17:58:04","slug":"six-long-pages-of-steve-fisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12275","title":{"rendered":"Six Long Pages Of Steve Fisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/4197122.47.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/4197122.47.jpg','popup','width=300,height=450,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/4197122.47-tm.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"4197122.47\" \/><\/a>In a six-page (get your clicking finger ready) story in <strong>Denver&#8217;s <\/strong><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westword.com\/2009-12-10\/news\/snowboarder-steve-fisher-hits-a-double-cork-in-the-road-on-his-way-to-the-olympics\/1\">Westword<\/a><\/em><\/strong>  writer <strong>Colin Bane<\/strong> dives deeply into the whole night-before-the-Olympics <strong>US Grand Prix<\/strong> scene using <strong>Steve Fisher<\/strong> as his muse.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that Steve Fisher: the amazingly talented rider who competes in a black balaclava that often leaves him looking more like a lost Minnesota hunter than one of the best pipe jocks in snowboarding. The guy who may forever live in the shadow of Shaun White&#8217;s pop-cultural zeitgeist.<\/p>\n<p>But Bane doesn&#8217;t really mention any of that, or of the strange place less marketable athletes like Fisher occupy in the high-fashion world of advertising-driven board sports. Bane plays the story of Fisher&#8217;s Olympic hopes straight and the result is a lot like Steve Fisher himself: really good, but not all that intriguing.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, snowboarding can probably use all the down-to-earthiness it can get before the five-ring hype storm rolls in off the coast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westword.com\/2009-12-10\/news\/snowboarder-steve-fisher-hits-a-double-cork-in-the-road-on-his-way-to-the-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Westword<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a six-page (get your clicking finger ready) story in Denver&#8217;s Westword writer Colin Bane dives deeply into the whole night-before-the-Olympics US Grand Prix scene using Steve Fisher as his muse. Yes, that Steve Fisher: the amazingly talented rider who competes in a black balaclava that often leaves him looking more like a lost Minnesota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12284,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12275\/revisions\/12284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}