{"id":461,"date":"2008-02-24T10:45:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T18:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2008-02-24T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T18:45:34","slug":"kids-push-snowboarding-as-official-vermont-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Kids Push Snowboarding As Official Vermont Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosters.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080224\/NEWS22\/776747692\/-1\/FOSSPORTS\" target=\"_blank\">Foster&#8217;s Daily Democrat<\/a><\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) &#8212; Sen. Harold Giard says he was skeptical when he first saw the bill on the agenda of the Senate Education Committee. &#8220;When I first saw it, I said, &#8220;What is this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But after he heard from the sixth graders from the Swanton Central School, Giard, D-Addison, said he was convinced the idea of making snowboarding the official state sport had a chance to make it into law.<\/p>\n<p>The class descended on the Senate chamber Tuesday afternoon to testify in favor of the idea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think they really did their homework and gave us the facts to back it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Katie Cleary, Myriam Bouti, Jocelyn Shusda, Rachel Greenia, Alex Benckert and Michael Wilks took turns at the witness table to tell Senators about their research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosters.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080224\/NEWS22\/776747692\/-1\/FOSSPORTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fosters.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Foster&#8217;s Daily Democrat: MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) &#8212; Sen. Harold Giard says he was skeptical when he first saw the bill on the agenda of the Senate Education Committee. &#8220;When I first saw it, I said, &#8220;What is this?&#8221; But after he heard from the sixth graders from the Swanton Central School, Giard, D-Addison, said [&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\/461"}],"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=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}