{"id":14600,"date":"2010-03-07T17:58:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T01:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14600"},"modified":"2010-03-07T17:59:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T01:59:10","slug":"shaman-white-what-the-tomato-can-teach-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14600","title":{"rendered":"Shaman White: What The Tomato Can Teach Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/010610_-25.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/010610_-25.jpg','popup','width=750,height=1000,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\/03\/010610_-25-tm.jpg\" height=\"266\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"010610  25\" \/><\/a><strong>Iris Martin<\/strong> is a &#8220;former psychotherapist&#8221; who blogs for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/iris-martin\/the-united-states-can-lea_b_477222.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a><\/strong> most likely without getting paid in hopes that people will buy her seemingly self-published books. But today Iris is not talking about  <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0615263968?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0615263968\" target=\"_blank\">Mortgage Wars<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. No. Today she is expounding on what the United States can learn from <strong>Shaun White<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>White&#8217;s recent round of interviews and appearances has provided a portrayal of an old soul in a highly tuned young body&#8211;and potentially a global leader in the making, if still in a somewhat unassuming embryonic state. He has not only transcended the myth of the hippie-haired snowboarder on his quest to stick the perfect run, he has laid down a style of being in the world that&#8217;s awesome for our times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ms. Martin is probably the first (and hopefully last) writer to reference <strong>Goldie Hawn<\/strong>, <strong>Ghandi<\/strong>, New Age theorist <strong>Michael Sharp<\/strong>, the <strong>Obama Administration<\/strong>, <strong>Bill Clinton<\/strong>, the <strong>Dali Lama<\/strong>, <strong>Marie Antoinette<\/strong>, <strong>Edward Gibbon<\/strong>, and <strong>Toynbee<\/strong> and <strong>Burke<\/strong> in an essay about snowboarding. After slogging through the entire piece we&#8217;re not sure it something anyone else should attempt. But we agree with the premise: we all could learn a lot from Shaman White. . . especially in the revenue department.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/iris-martin\/the-united-states-can-lea_b_477222.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iris Martin is a &#8220;former psychotherapist&#8221; who blogs for the Huffington Post most likely without getting paid in hopes that people will buy her seemingly self-published books. But today Iris is not talking about Mortgage Wars. No. Today she is expounding on what the United States can learn from Shaun White. White&#8217;s recent round 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":[15,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600"}],"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=14600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14601,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600\/revisions\/14601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}