{"id":731,"date":"2008-04-17T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2008-04-17T08:05:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T16:05:03","slug":"lib-techs-weird-science-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Lib Tech&#8217;s Weird Science Bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer <strong>Jeff Hemmel<\/strong> has a great story on the <strong>Lib Tech Skate Banana<\/strong> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firsttracksonline.com\/index.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=4388\" target=\"_blank\">First Tracks Online<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s some crazy stuff going on up in Washington State. First comes the notion that a snowboard&#8217;s edge should resemble a crinkle-cut French fry, rather than a traditional curve. The dust on crust had barely settled from that outburst when next came the idea that camber was old news, and that rocker &#8212; yes, wakeboard-like rocker &#8212; was the wave of the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While we all know <strong>Mike Olson<\/strong> is a design genius, it&#8217;s nice to see others appreciating his banana. . . tech.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firsttracksonline.com\/index.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=4388\" target=\"_blank\">First Tracks<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer Jeff Hemmel has a great story on the Lib Tech Skate Banana on First Tracks Online. There&#8217;s some crazy stuff going on up in Washington State. First comes the notion that a snowboard&#8217;s edge should resemble a crinkle-cut French fry, rather than a traditional curve. The dust on crust had barely settled from that [&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\/731"}],"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=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}