{"id":12454,"date":"2009-12-15T09:05:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12454"},"modified":"2009-12-15T09:05:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T17:05:16","slug":"gretchen-bleiler-on-vanityfair-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12454","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Bleiler On VanityFair.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/gretchen_barash.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/gretchen_barash.jpg','popup','width=500,height=333,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\/gretchen_barash-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Gretchen Barash\" \/><\/a>We can feel the Olympic hype heating our fingers as we type. And it appears to be <strong>Gretchen Bleiler<\/strong> all day long. Here she gets profiled on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/online\/style\/2009\/12\/vancouver-2010-olympics-watch-gretchen-bleiler-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">VanityFair.com<\/a><\/strong> and we&#8217;re guessing this is just the tip of the hypeberg:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the dichotomy between being a fashion designer and a gangster shredder isn\u2019t Bleiler\u2019s only contrariety. She also straddles the worlds of core and mainstream snowboarding. \u201cSnowboarding, from the beginning, has always been a very core sport, and at first there were a lot of riders who resisted the growth of this sport on the mainstream level\u2014thus the Olympics\u2014as it seemed that it represented selling out the soul of the sport. But things have changed,\u201d she says, pointing out that now kids are growing up going to snowboarding academies and training to be Olympians. \u201cEven though this is still a very image-conscious sport, there are riders who are able to walk the line between core and mainstream.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/online\/style\/2009\/12\/vancouver-2010-olympics-watch-gretchen-bleiler-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vanity Fair<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GretchenBleiler\/status\/6698928793\" target=\"_blank\">@GretchenBleiler<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can feel the Olympic hype heating our fingers as we type. And it appears to be Gretchen Bleiler all day long. Here she gets profiled on VanityFair.com and we&#8217;re guessing this is just the tip of the hypeberg: But the dichotomy between being a fashion designer and a gangster shredder isn\u2019t Bleiler\u2019s only contrariety. [&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":[10,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12454"}],"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=12454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12455,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12454\/revisions\/12455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}