{"id":14314,"date":"2010-02-25T16:10:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T00:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14314"},"modified":"2010-02-25T16:19:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T00:19:29","slug":"white-sheckler-on-businessweek-power-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14314","title":{"rendered":"White, Sheckler On BusinessWeek Power Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/051_shaun_white.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/051_shaun_white.jpg','popup','width=600,height=350,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\/051_shaun_white-tm.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"051 Shaun White\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each year, apparently, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/ss\/10\/01\/0126_power_100\/\" target=\"_blank\">BusinessWeek<\/a><\/strong> magazine creates a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/ss\/10\/01\/0126_power_100\/\" target=\"_blank\">Power 100<\/a><\/strong> list of the most powerful athletes in the world. Being an Olympic year, they&#8217;ve also created a sister list of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/ss\/10\/02\/0225_most_powerful_winter_olympians\/\" target=\"_blank\">Most Powerful Olympic Athletes<\/a><\/strong>. And <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/ss\/10\/01\/0126_power_100\/52.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Shaun White<\/a><\/strong> is featured on both. He&#8217;s number four on the Olympic list checked in between a couple hockey players and on the athletes list he is all the way down at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/ss\/10\/01\/0126_power_100\/52.htm\" target=\"_blank\">51<\/a><\/strong> between golfer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/ss\/10\/01\/0126_power_100\/51.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Furyk<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>New York Mets&#8217;<\/strong> third baseman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/ss\/10\/01\/0126_power_100\/53.htm\" target=\"_blank\">David Wright<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why he&#8217;s on the list: Having dropped the &#8220;Flying Tomato&#8221; moniker, White has picked up the ability to carve his place in the national consciousness despite competing in a niche sport.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only other real notable on the list was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/ss\/10\/01\/0126_power_100\/101.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Sheckler<\/a><\/strong> who just squeaked in at 100 &#8220;now that Tony Hawk is retired.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/ss\/10\/01\/0126_power_100\/\" target=\"_blank\">BusinessWeek<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, apparently, BusinessWeek magazine creates a Power 100 list of the most powerful athletes in the world. Being an Olympic year, they&#8217;ve also created a sister list of the Most Powerful Olympic Athletes. And Shaun White is featured on both. He&#8217;s number four on the Olympic list checked in between a couple hockey players [&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":[15,3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14314"}],"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=14314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14317,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14314\/revisions\/14317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}