{"id":38357,"date":"2012-11-29T14:54:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T22:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=38357"},"modified":"2012-11-29T15:03:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T23:03:26","slug":"pat-bridges-speaks-to-colin-whyte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=38357","title":{"rendered":"Pat Bridges Speaks To Colin Whyte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/as_snb_bridges2_400.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/as_snb_bridges2_400.jpg','popup','width=400,height=601,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\/2012\/11\/as_snb_bridges2_400-tm.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"As Snb Bridges2 400\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s a conversation that <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowboardermag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Snowboarder Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong> Editor <strong>Pat Bridges<\/strong> and journalist <strong>Colin Whyte<\/strong> have probably had hundreds of times over beer in some freezing ass mountain town dive, but now it&#8217;s for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/snowboarding\/story\/_\/id\/8631882\/snowboarder-mag-editor-pat-eye-bridges\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN.com\/Action<\/a><\/strong> and Whyte is getting paid. Don&#8217;t let that stop you from reading Bridges Tastemaker interview which includes nuggets like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As clich\u00e9 as it is to say, I think we as snowboarders need to have more influence &#8212; and by &#8220;snowboarders&#8221; I don&#8217;t mean people who ride less than 10 days a year. Rather than calling out any specific groups, I will generalize by saying anyone who rides less than 10 days a year should have less say. . . This includes any agents who are out of touch, skiers, shop buyers, team managers, park managers, etc. &#8230; I could keep going for a while with that list. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to see the business realities of corporate snowboard media haven&#8217;t clouded Bridges&#8217; opinions all that much. Bottom line: the man is a snowboarding treasure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/snowboarding\/story\/_\/id\/8631882\/snowboarder-mag-editor-pat-eye-bridges\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN.com\/Action<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a conversation that Snowboarder Magazine Editor Pat Bridges and journalist Colin Whyte have probably had hundreds of times over beer in some freezing ass mountain town dive, but now it&#8217;s for ESPN.com\/Action and Whyte is getting paid. Don&#8217;t let that stop you from reading Bridges Tastemaker interview which includes nuggets like this: As clich\u00e9 [&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\/38357"}],"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=38357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38361,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38357\/revisions\/38361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}