{"id":20195,"date":"2010-12-08T08:10:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T16:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=20195"},"modified":"2010-12-08T09:36:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T17:36:39","slug":"gretchen-bleiler-over-the-halfpipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=20195","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Bleiler Over The Halfpipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/oly_g_bleiler_b1_576.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/oly_g_bleiler_b1_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\/12\/oly_g_bleiler_b1_576-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Oly G Bleiler B1 576\" \/><\/a>Using her new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/espnw\/blog\/_\/post\/5895983\/creativity-competition-year-change\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN Women blog<\/a><\/strong> as her launch pad <strong>Gretchen Bleiler<\/strong> has announced that she is eliminating &#8220;most of the halfpipe competitions from [her] schedule this season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just as the decision I made in high school wasn&#8217;t easy, this one isn&#8217;t, either. Competing in the halfpipe is what I know and love, and what I&#8217;ve been great at for the past 10 years, which is exactly why it&#8217;s time to forge into this new territory. It&#8217;s time to learn and time to grow. Seeing snowboarding differently, seeing the mountain differently, and riding with creativity and style &#8212; that&#8217;s my new goal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes the transition from athlete to spokesmodel can be difficult, especially when sponsors&#8217; memories for why they sponsored athletes in the first place seems so short these days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/espnw\/blog\/_\/post\/5895983\/creativity-competition-year-change\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN W (you know, it&#8217;s like for Women)<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using her new ESPN Women blog as her launch pad Gretchen Bleiler has announced that she is eliminating &#8220;most of the halfpipe competitions from [her] schedule this season.&#8221; Just as the decision I made in high school wasn&#8217;t easy, this one isn&#8217;t, either. Competing in the halfpipe is what I know and love, and what [&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\/20195"}],"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=20195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20204,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20195\/revisions\/20204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}