{"id":13445,"date":"2010-01-25T17:31:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T01:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13445"},"modified":"2010-01-25T17:32:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T01:32:30","slug":"torah-bright-doubles-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13445","title":{"rendered":"Torah Bright Doubles Down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/articleLarge.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/articleLarge.jpg','popup','width=600,height=360,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\/2010\/01\/articleLarge-tm.jpg\" height=\"258\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Articlelarge\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we first met <strong>Torah Bright<\/strong> she was a cute 14-year-old rolling around the world with <strong>Danny Kass<\/strong> and the <strong>Dingo<\/strong>, seemingly without supervision. Obviously, her parents had a lot more trust in her than we would have.  But it looks like they were right, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/25\/sports\/olympics\/25bright.html?hpw\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTorah has the athleticism and the technical ability to win; she clearly knows she is the favorite going into all of this,\u201d said Bright\u2019s agent, <strong>Circe Wallace<\/strong>. \u201cI\u2019m never worried about her being grounded. She\u2019s focused in a positive way you don\u2019t see from many in snowboarding, much less other sports. It\u2019s refreshing for sure. . . \u201cWhat\u2019s coming up could be the perfect storm for making Torah a star beyond snowboarding. She has the talent, the personality, and the visibility is now coming. She\u2019s poised to take off.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And brother\/coach <strong>Ben Bright<\/strong> says she&#8217;s got a double cork down. And as we all know, that&#8217;s gold medal talk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/25\/sports\/olympics\/25bright.html?hpw\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we first met Torah Bright she was a cute 14-year-old rolling around the world with Danny Kass and the Dingo, seemingly without supervision. Obviously, her parents had a lot more trust in her than we would have. But it looks like they were right, according to a story in the New York Times. \u201cTorah [&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\/13445"}],"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=13445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13446,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13445\/revisions\/13446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}