{"id":4522,"date":"2009-01-26T06:46:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T14:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4522"},"modified":"2009-01-26T06:46:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T14:46:43","slug":"winter-x-13-attendance-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4522","title":{"rendered":"Winter X 13 Attendance Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We used to say the <strong>X Games<\/strong> were best watched on TV, but we don&#8217;t even do that any more. Now, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspendailynews.com\/section\/home\/131981\" target=\"_blank\">Aspen Daily News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, we discover that the onsite attendance for Winter X 13 was down to its lowest point in five years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ESPN officials are \u201cvery pleased\u201d about the four-day total of 68,100 spectators, more than 4,000 fewer than last year\u2019s total of 72,500 and well short of the record 2007 attendance of 76,150. . . Despite all the weather and rain people stood out there for four or five hours,\u201d said <strong>Amy Lupo<\/strong>, a marketing director for ESPN. \u201cEvery final is the absolute biggest event with all the cheering and the crowds.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When you factory in the economy, getting 68,100 people to stand around in the snow for hours on end seems like a pretty amazing feat to us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspendailynews.com\/section\/home\/131981\" target=\"_blank\">Aspen Daily News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We used to say the X Games were best watched on TV, but we don&#8217;t even do that any more. Now, according to a story in the Aspen Daily News, we discover that the onsite attendance for Winter X 13 was down to its lowest point in five years. ESPN officials are \u201cvery pleased\u201d about [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522"}],"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=4522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4523,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}