{"id":12434,"date":"2009-12-14T18:11:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T02:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12434"},"modified":"2009-12-14T18:34:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T02:34:48","slug":"buying-olympic-snowboarding-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12434","title":{"rendered":"Buying Olympic Snowboarding Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are in America who think you can buy Olympic medals. It&#8217;s simple according to the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/other_sports\/olympics\/articles\/2009\/12\/13\/how_to_make_an_olympic_snowbaorder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Globe&#8217;s<\/a><\/em><\/strong> story <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/other_sports\/olympics\/articles\/2009\/12\/13\/how_to_make_an_olympic_snowbaorder\/\" target=\"_blank\">How To Make and Olympic Snowboarder<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Start young. Sign up for the sport&#8217;s premier academy, located in Vermont. Pay $40,000 a year for tuition and board. Devote days and nights to the pursuit. Add guts. Expect glory. . . Stratton alumni are hoping to fill a third of the spots on the US Olympic snowboarding team for the upcoming games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes. That makes nice brochure copy for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gosms.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stratton Mountain School<\/a><\/strong>, but not all students are <strong>Louie Vitos<\/strong>. For the full horror story on what some people will do to try to get their kids get into the Olympics read the rest of the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/other_sports\/olympics\/articles\/2009\/12\/13\/how_to_make_an_olympic_snowbaorder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are in America who think you can buy Olympic medals. It&#8217;s simple according to the Boston Globe&#8217;s story How To Make and Olympic Snowboarder. Start young. Sign up for the sport&#8217;s premier academy, located in Vermont. Pay $40,000 a year for tuition and board. Devote days and nights to the pursuit. Add guts. Expect [&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\/12434"}],"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=12434"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12438,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12434\/revisions\/12438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}