{"id":18337,"date":"2010-09-29T09:23:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T16:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18337"},"modified":"2010-09-29T09:32:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T16:32:07","slug":"todd-franzen-profiled-on-espnaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18337","title":{"rendered":"Todd Franzen Profiled On ESPN\/Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/as_snb_franzen1_576.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/as_snb_franzen1_576.jpg','popup','width=576,height=324,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\/09\/as_snb_franzen1_576-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"As Snb Franzen1 576\" \/><\/a>Wondering whatever happened to pro snow shred <strong>Todd Franzen<\/strong>? <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/snowboarding\/news\/story?page=todd-franzen\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\/Action<\/a><\/strong> has a great story by <strong>Devon O&#8217;Neill<\/strong> on the demise of Franzen&#8217;s pro snowboarding career and his on-going battle with Stage IV Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What happened over the next 10 months radically altered Franzen&#8217;s world view. Not because cancer destroyed his life &#8212; almost the opposite, in fact. In a strange twist he still struggles to explain, cancer &#8212; a disease that kills more than 500,000 Americans each year &#8212; filled the same role snowboarding had nearly 20 years prior. . . It gave him purpose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The battle is not over yet, but Franzen&#8217;s amazing sense of humor has survived. Click the link to read the rest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/snowboarding\/news\/story?page=todd-franzen\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\/Action<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering whatever happened to pro snow shred Todd Franzen? ESPN\/Action has a great story by Devon O&#8217;Neill on the demise of Franzen&#8217;s pro snowboarding career and his on-going battle with Stage IV Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma. What happened over the next 10 months radically altered Franzen&#8217;s world view. Not because cancer destroyed his life &#8212; almost the [&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\/18337"}],"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=18337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18343,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18337\/revisions\/18343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}