{"id":15683,"date":"2010-04-25T14:56:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T21:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15683"},"modified":"2010-04-25T14:56:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T21:56:58","slug":"is-big-money-killing-snowboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15683","title":{"rendered":"Is Big Money Killing Snowboarding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/olympians_obama_0421.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/olympians_obama_0421.jpg','popup','width=307,height=200,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\/04\/olympians_obama_0421-tm.jpg\" height=\"130\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Olympians Obama 0421\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/business\/article\/0,8599,1983603,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Time Magazine <\/a><\/strong>asks the age old action sports question: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/business\/article\/0,8599,1983603,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Is Snowboarding Getting Spoiled by Big Money, and Big Risks<\/a><\/strong>? Writer <strong>Christina Crapanzano<\/strong> then dives into the now clich\u00e9 story of <strong>Shaun White<\/strong> vs. <strong>Kevin Pearce<\/strong>. It&#8217;s the over-simplified story of one snowboarder who risks everything learning a new trick and goes on to become a huge celebrity and the other who took the same risk and ended up in the hospital with a traumatic brain injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the money and risks rise, the loss for snowboarding could be the very things that draw so many to the sport \u2014 its accessibility, esprit de corps and sheer pleasure. &#8220;I really believe that it will never lose that \u2014 it can&#8217;t lose that primarily because snowboarding is really fun,&#8221; Rice says. &#8220;That&#8217;s the base of it. It&#8217;s as simple as that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We have to agree with Travis. Forget all the Olympic hoopla, the media, the big dollar sponsorship and go hike a hill. It&#8217;s still fun. And <em>they<\/em> can never take that away. Not even in the pages of Time Magazine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/business\/article\/0,8599,1983603-1,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Time.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time Magazine asks the age old action sports question: Is Snowboarding Getting Spoiled by Big Money, and Big Risks? Writer Christina Crapanzano then dives into the now clich\u00e9 story of Shaun White vs. Kevin Pearce. It&#8217;s the over-simplified story of one snowboarder who risks everything learning a new trick and goes on to become a [&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\/15683"}],"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=15683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15684,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15683\/revisions\/15684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}