{"id":48,"date":"2007-08-17T16:38:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T00:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2007-12-21T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T00:39:00","slug":"skateboarding-and-the-five-ring-circus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarding And The Five Ring Circus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately there has been a lot of talk about skateboarding and the Olympics. The most powerful sporting organization in the world is having trouble with &#8220;the kids&#8221; and they think it might be time to include skateboarding in the official program. Brian Hendrickson of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbian.com\/sports\/localNews\/08172007news184587.cfm\">The Columbian<\/a><\/em><\/strong> newspaper in Clark County, Washington discussed this issue of 2007 <strong>X Games<\/strong> Big Air Gold Medalist <strong>Bob Burnquist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;d rather it not happen than happen the wrong way,&#8221; Burnquist said Thursday after finishing his preliminary run on the vert ramp at the AST Dew Tour in the Rose Garden. &#8220;They need us more than we need them. And that&#8217;s OK. But we need to figure this out.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hendrickson claims the TV ratings for the Olympics have been sliding lately and that &#8220;skating&#8217;s popularity has erupted.&#8221; We know at least one writer who hasn&#8217;t check the X Games or AST Dew Tour ratings in a while.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbian.com\/sports\/localNews\/08172007news184587.cfm\">The Columbian<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately there has been a lot of talk about skateboarding and the Olympics. The most powerful sporting organization in the world is having trouble with &#8220;the kids&#8221; and they think it might be time to include skateboarding in the official program. Brian Hendrickson of The Columbian newspaper in Clark County, Washington discussed this issue of [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}