{"id":3713,"date":"2009-01-04T20:19:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T04:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2009-01-04T21:13:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T05:13:50","slug":"vail-snowboardings-double-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3713","title":{"rendered":"Vail Snowboarding&#8217;s Double Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bilde-6.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bilde-6.jpeg','popup','width=201,height=300,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\/2009\/01\/bilde-6-tm.jpg\" height=\"149\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bilde-6\" \/><\/a>The winter of 1988-89 was the first full season that <strong>Vail<\/strong> allowed snowboarders to ride the mountain. For those old enough to remember the days of not being able to ride anywhere, this means one thing: you&#8217;re old. And so is <strong>Ray Sforzo<\/strong>. He was there 20 years ago and he&#8217;s still there today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt seems to be working out pretty well,\u201d said Sforzo, who founded Vail\u2019s snowboard school and directed it for 15 years. \u201cThere\u2019s less and less negative interface. Instead of the idiot snowboarder cut me off, now it\u2019s just the idiot cut me off. . . .\u201cObviously it\u2019s more mainstream,\u201d Sforzo said. \u201cIt\u2019s a pretty substantial part of our ski school revenue. A lot of kids are lured to snowboarding.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hard to believe it was ever an issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/article\/20090103\/NEWS\/901029899\/1001\/NONE&amp;parentprofile=1062&amp;title=%91Boarders%20blaze%2020-year%20trail%20at%20Vail\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"%91Boarders%20blaze%2020-year%20trail%20at%20Vail\">Vail Daily<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winter of 1988-89 was the first full season that Vail allowed snowboarders to ride the mountain. For those old enough to remember the days of not being able to ride anywhere, this means one thing: you&#8217;re old. And so is Ray Sforzo. He was there 20 years ago and he&#8217;s still there today: \u201cIt [&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":[14,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713"}],"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=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3718,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions\/3718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}