{"id":39464,"date":"2013-01-16T13:22:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T21:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=39464"},"modified":"2013-01-16T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T21:34:00","slug":"la-times-snowboarding-on-the-fade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=39464","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: Snowboarding On The Fade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that skis are getting so easy to use the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-ski-sales-20130112,0,1622119.story?track=lat-pick\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times <\/a><\/em><\/strong>says many people are ditching snowboards, according to a business story titled <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-ski-sales-20130112,0,1622119.story?track=lat-pick\" target=\"_blank\">Snowboarding craze cools as new designs make skiing easier<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sales of snowboards and snowboard equipment have slipped 21% over the last four years, while sales of skis have climbed 3% in the same period, according to SnowSports Industries America, a trade group that tracks the $3.5-billion snow sports and apparel industry. . . Baby boomers aren&#8217;t the only ones bailing. Last season alpine skiing replaced snowboarding as the most popular snow sport among kids ages 6 to 17, according to the trade group. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re reminded of something crusty surfers are always overheard saying, &#8220;Fewer surfers means more waves for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-ski-sales-20130112,0,1622119.story?track=lat-pick\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that skis are getting so easy to use the Los Angeles Times says many people are ditching snowboards, according to a business story titled Snowboarding craze cools as new designs make skiing easier. Sales of snowboards and snowboard equipment have slipped 21% over the last four years, while sales of skis have climbed 3% [&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":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39464"}],"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=39464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39467,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39464\/revisions\/39467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}