{"id":827,"date":"2008-06-02T07:17:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T15:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=827"},"modified":"2008-06-02T10:48:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T18:48:24","slug":"cool-bahamian-snowboard-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=827","title":{"rendered":"Cool Bahamian Snowboard Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Korath Wright<\/strong>, a snowboarder from Canada, has announced that he will be attempting to become Bahamas&#8217; first winter Olympian (though he&#8217;s never lived in the Bahamas, his father does, and somehow that was enough to make it happen).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a beachside reception, escorted by a Junkanoo band, and joined by hundreds of Bahamian supporters, Korath Wright officially announced that he is ready to become the first-ever Winter Olympian from the Bahamas. . . Wright was joined by friends, family, members of government and the Bahamas Olympic Association for this historic event. All attendees also signed the snowboard emblazoned with the Bahamian flag, as a show of support for Wright&#8217;s journey. He plans to use this board at his first competition on the path to Olympic qualifications in New Zealand in mid-April.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, if you can&#8217;t make the Canadian team, why not try some other country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casinobeacon.co.uk\/news-articles\/news\/2008-05\/olympic-310508.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CasinoBeacon.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korath Wright, a snowboarder from Canada, has announced that he will be attempting to become Bahamas&#8217; first winter Olympian (though he&#8217;s never lived in the Bahamas, his father does, and somehow that was enough to make it happen). At a beachside reception, escorted by a Junkanoo band, and joined by hundreds of Bahamian supporters, Korath [&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\/827"}],"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=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}