{"id":42754,"date":"2013-07-17T10:22:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T17:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=42754"},"modified":"2013-07-17T10:25:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T17:25:59","slug":"another-extreme-sports-park-dreamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=42754","title":{"rendered":"Another Extreme Sports Park Dreamer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/0716_vegas_extreme07_t618.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42755\" alt=\"0716_vegas_extreme07_t618\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/0716_vegas_extreme07_t618-450x275.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/0716_vegas_extreme07_t618-450x275.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/0716_vegas_extreme07_t618-200x122.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/0716_vegas_extreme07_t618.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seems there is always someone who believes that what the world really needs right now is an action sports theme park. This time around it&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Josh Kearney<\/strong>, a 34-year-old Australian. According to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegasinc.com\/news\/2013\/jul\/17\/snowboarding-motocross-and-whitewater-rafting-stri\/#\/0\">Vegas Inc<\/a>,<\/strong>. Kearney wants to create a park &#8220;right off the Las Vegas strip&#8221; that will features motocross, wakeboarding, surfing, and snowboarding.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cVegas Extreme will stand as a new model for amusement parks around the world,\u201d Kearney said. \u201cIts focus is on an exploding generation of sporting events and recreation that push the boundaries of human movement.\u201d . . .The amusement park would include a white sand beach for sunbathing and cabanas fashioned out of repurposed shipping containers. A 7-acre lake would offer jet skiing, whitewater rafting and wakeboarding. A cable system would allow up to 10 riders to zip around the lake at once. . .\u00a0During winter, the lake could be drained and filled with snow. The resulting \u201cski bowl\u201d could be used for snowboarding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what&#8217;s left before this year&#8217;s version of the <strong>Gotcha Glacier<\/strong>\u00a0or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16123\"><strong>New Jersey&#8217;s Xanadu<\/strong><\/a> becomes a reality? Well, $50 million for one, and then Kearney will also need a piece of property to build it on. In other words, this isn&#8217;t even a project yet. But we wish Kearney the best anyway. Would be cool if one of these finally got built somewhere in North America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegasinc.com\/news\/2013\/jul\/17\/snowboarding-motocross-and-whitewater-rafting-stri\/#\/0\">Vegas Inc.]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems there is always someone who believes that what the world really needs right now is an action sports theme park. This time around it&#8217;s\u00a0Josh Kearney, a 34-year-old Australian. According to a story on Vegas Inc,. Kearney wants to create a park &#8220;right off the Las Vegas strip&#8221; that will features motocross, wakeboarding, surfing, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42754"}],"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=42754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42759,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42754\/revisions\/42759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}