{"id":464,"date":"2008-02-24T10:55:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T18:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2008-02-24T10:55:38","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T18:55:38","slug":"canada-mints-a-snowboard-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Canada Mints A Snowboard Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/photo-11442.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/photo-11442.jpg','popup','width=248,height=256,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\/2008\/02\/photo-11442-tm.jpg\" height=\"206\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Photo-11442\" \/><\/a>In celebration of the <strong>2010 Winter Olympic Games<\/strong> in Vancouver, the Canadian Mint is releasing a quarter with a snowboarder on it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;With two years to go until 2010, the Mint is delighted to be launching its second wave of circulation coins to commemorate the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games,&#8221; said Ian E. Bennett, President and CEO of the Royal Canadian Mint. &#8220;Featuring the dynamic and energetic sport of snowboarding is a fantastic way to kick off 2008.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems like snowboarding would have at least been worth a Loonie, huh? Then again, they&#8217;re probably saving those for curling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/releases\/archive\/February2008\/20\/c4020.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNW Group<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, the Canadian Mint is releasing a quarter with a snowboarder on it. &#8220;With two years to go until 2010, the Mint is delighted to be launching its second wave of circulation coins to commemorate the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games,&#8221; said Ian E. Bennett, President [&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\/464"}],"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=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}