{"id":2458,"date":"2008-11-13T10:54:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T18:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2008-11-13T10:55:41","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T18:55:41","slug":"shaun-white-is-a-uber-grom-mench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2458","title":{"rendered":"Shaun White Is A Uber-Grom Mench?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/white2x.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/white2x.jpg','popup','width=245,height=337,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\/2008\/11\/white2x-tm.jpg\" height=\"275\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"White2X\" \/><\/a>We feel sorry for sports writers. It&#8217;s seems their whole game is spinning babble-filled yarns about nothing so they can justify getting paid to write stories about silliness.  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/action\/2008-11-12-snowboarder-white-clothing-line_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> action sports specialist <strong>Sal Ruibal <\/strong>worked overtime on his recen<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/action\/2008-11-12-snowboarder-white-clothing-line_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">t Shaun White story<\/a><\/strong>. Here&#8217;s what we mean:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shaun White is a major league mench.. . . The Yiddish word for a person of honor and integrity wasn&#8217;t coined with red-headed, board-shredding millionaires in mind, but 22-year-old White has grown into it. . . . The former uber-grom has emerged from sixth-grade phenom status to become one of the world&#8217;s best athletes in snowboarding and skateboarding. He owns multiple gold medals from the Summer and Winter X Games, Summer and Winter Dew Tour and 2006 Winter Olympics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How&#8217;s that for a mainstream sports pitch? Major league, Mench, Yiddish, shredding, uber. . .  We can almost hear the paper&#8217;s editors: &#8220;If that doesn&#8217;t make every fat-assed, couch plowing, football fan put down their beer and read a newspaper, nothing will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/action\/2008-11-12-snowboarder-white-clothing-line_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We feel sorry for sports writers. It&#8217;s seems their whole game is spinning babble-filled yarns about nothing so they can justify getting paid to write stories about silliness. USA Today&#8217;s action sports specialist Sal Ruibal worked overtime on his recent Shaun White story. Here&#8217;s what we mean: Shaun White is a major league mench.. . [&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":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458"}],"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=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}