{"id":2596,"date":"2008-11-20T07:57:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T15:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2008-11-20T08:17:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T16:17:29","slug":"casanova-gets-the-hometown-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2596","title":{"rendered":"Casanova Gets The Hometown Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/a-nova-1sign.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/a-nova-1sign.jpg','popup','width=450,height=423,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\/a-nova-1sign-tm.jpg\" height=\"188\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"A-Nova-1.Sign\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s nothing better than a profile in the hometown paper. Take this profile of professional snowboarder <strong>Mike Casanova<\/strong> in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hudsonstarobserver.com\/articles\/index.cfm?id=31876\" target=\"_blank\">Hudson Star Observer<\/a><\/strong> for example: the writer&#8217;s shameless exuberance is so refreshing. . .<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So as a kid, did Mike Casanova ever imagine that he\u2019d be the snowboarding equivalent of a rock star at age 23? . . .Oh, full-blown dream,\u201d he said without hesitation. \u201cI remember sitting there watching videos at my friend Matt Haynie\u2019s house. He would always get all the new (snowboarding) videos. So we would go over to his house and drink Yoo-Hoo chocolate milk and just sit there and geek out watching video after video after video \u2014 just talking about all the tricks we wanted to learn.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We understand completely. He&#8217;s a hometown hero to all of us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hudsonstarobserver.com\/articles\/index.cfm?id=31876\" target=\"_blank\">Hudson Star Observer<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing better than a profile in the hometown paper. Take this profile of professional snowboarder Mike Casanova in the Hudson Star Observer for example: the writer&#8217;s shameless exuberance is so refreshing. . . So as a kid, did Mike Casanova ever imagine that he\u2019d be the snowboarding equivalent of a rock star at age [&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\/2596"}],"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=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}