{"id":4103,"date":"2009-01-15T09:25:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T17:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2009-01-15T13:40:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T21:40:10","slug":"pat-the-eye-bridges-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4103","title":{"rendered":"Pat &#8220;The Eye&#8221; Bridges Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/as-snb-bridges-craighill-45.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/as-snb-bridges-craighill-45.jpg','popup','width=458,height=630,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\/as-snb-bridges-craighill-45-tm.jpg\" height=\"275\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"As Snb Bridges Craighill 45\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s rare that we get to read interviews with the people who make the magazines. And one of the longest lasting editors in all snowboard media is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/snowboardermag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Snowboarder Magazine&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong><strong> Pat Bridges<\/strong> (we never thought we&#8217;d say that). <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/actionsports\/\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a><\/strong> correspondent <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rdcrd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Whyte<\/a><\/strong> checks in and get gems like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve gotta say I am tired of people wanting to grow snowboarding via exposure. Seriously, who hasn&#8217;t already seen snowboarding? We are creeping up on our fourth Olympics and have had over a dozen X-Games. Recently a new tour has been hyped and touted as &#8220;helping to grow snowboarding.&#8221; It is doing no more than anything else on Network TV has done to grow snowboarding. It is growing the amount of money that Viacom is making off of snowboarding for sure. I must admit that watching the event live on the tube was convenient except that it was on a Sunday which kept me and however many other weekend warriors off the hill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen, brother. Follow the link for the rest of the interview with one of snowboarding&#8217;s most original voices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/snowboarding\/blog?post=3832429\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s rare that we get to read interviews with the people who make the magazines. And one of the longest lasting editors in all snowboard media is Snowboarder Magazine&#8217;s Pat Bridges (we never thought we&#8217;d say that). ESPN correspondent Colin Whyte checks in and get gems like this: I&#8217;ve gotta say I am tired of [&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\/4103"}],"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=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4120,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions\/4120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}