{"id":3220,"date":"2008-12-15T08:34:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T16:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2008-12-15T08:41:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T16:41:08","slug":"snowboardings-2009-event-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3220","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarding&#8217;s 2009 Event Overload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/sbj200812150501-01.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/sbj200812150501-01.jpg','popup','width=200,height=323,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\/12\/sbj200812150501-01-tm.jpg\" height=\"323\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Sbj200812150501-01\" \/><\/a>The 2008-09 contest season looks pretty loaded up and according to a story in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/article\/60947\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Business Journal<\/a><\/strong> snowboarders are doing well at managing their schedules.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prioritizing has become a key word for White and other snowboarders this winter. Ever since the <strong>Dew Tour <\/strong>announced plans to launch a three-stop winter series, agents, athletes and winter event organizers have wondered if the winter calendar could support the number of events planned for the 2008-09 season. Athlete participation is key to each event\u2019s survival because only stars can generate the interest needed to draw people to the slopes or TV to watch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Bob Klein<\/strong>, <strong>Andy Finch<\/strong>, <strong>Shaun White&#8217;s<\/strong> agent <strong>Mark Ervin<\/strong>, <strong>Chris Stiepock<\/strong>, and <strong>Hannah Teter<\/strong> are quoted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/article\/60947\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Business Journal]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008-09 contest season looks pretty loaded up and according to a story in the Sports Business Journal snowboarders are doing well at managing their schedules. Prioritizing has become a key word for White and other snowboarders this winter. Ever since the Dew Tour announced plans to launch a three-stop winter series, agents, athletes and [&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\/3220"}],"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=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}