{"id":43275,"date":"2013-09-09T12:20:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=43275"},"modified":"2013-09-09T12:20:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:20:32","slug":"elements-julian-davidson-goes-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=43275","title":{"rendered":"Element&#8217;s Julian Davidson Goes Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"451\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eRLn3y8hmRY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What does &#8220;going pro&#8221; even mean in skateboarding these days? Does it mean the skater is finally getting paid? No. Does it mean they guy is competing in &#8220;pro contests&#8221;? No. After years of asking everyone we know what &#8220;going pro&#8221; means and getting a different answer each time we&#8217;ve finally figured it out. If you get a &#8220;pro model&#8221; anything and someone promotes you as having gone pro, then you&#8217;re pro. Take <strong>Julian Davidson<\/strong> for instance. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elementskateboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Element <\/a><\/strong>just bumped him up to the &#8220;pro team&#8221; and gave him a &#8220;pro model&#8221; so the dude <i>is<\/i> pro. Period. Congrats, Julian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does &#8220;going pro&#8221; even mean in skateboarding these days? Does it mean the skater is finally getting paid? No. Does it mean they guy is competing in &#8220;pro contests&#8221;? No. After years of asking everyone we know what &#8220;going pro&#8221; means and getting a different answer each time we&#8217;ve finally figured it out. If [&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":[3,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43275"}],"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=43275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43276,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43275\/revisions\/43276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}