{"id":14234,"date":"2010-02-24T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14234"},"modified":"2010-02-24T08:12:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T16:12:52","slug":"jessie-loomis-talks-powder-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14234","title":{"rendered":"Jessie Loomis Talks Powder Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/LT3R5128.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/LT3R5128.jpg','popup','width=426,height=640,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\/02\/LT3R5128-tm.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Lt3R5128\" \/><\/a><strong>Jessie Huffman<\/strong> sits down with Vermont&#8217;s <strong>Jessie Loomis<\/strong> to get the story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/powderjets.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Powder Jets<\/a><\/strong>, Loomis&#8217; &#8220;forward-thinking&#8221; back to basics wood snowboards. After taking a couple runs on an old Burton Elite a few years ago, Loomis apparently had a rather luddite epiphany.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s when I realized that space-age technology wasn&#8217;t increasing my enjoyment of the sport. I thought I&#8217;d just bring it right back to the fundamentals, get rid of all the technological geekiness, just take a step sideways and make it fun again. Play in the back yard with the kids; make it quiet, remove the fashion, remove the stress. It&#8217;s just snowboarding, right?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed. Follow the link for the rest of the interview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/snowboarding\/blog\/_\/post\/4937337\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\/Action<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessie Huffman sits down with Vermont&#8217;s Jessie Loomis to get the story on Powder Jets, Loomis&#8217; &#8220;forward-thinking&#8221; back to basics wood snowboards. After taking a couple runs on an old Burton Elite a few years ago, Loomis apparently had a rather luddite epiphany. That&#8217;s when I realized that space-age technology wasn&#8217;t increasing my enjoyment of [&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\/14234"}],"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=14234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14235,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234\/revisions\/14235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}