{"id":8285,"date":"2009-05-26T08:26:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8285"},"modified":"2009-05-26T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T16:41:33","slug":"melcher-in-world-facial-hair-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8285","title":{"rendered":"Melcher In World Facial Hair Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/melcher-mustache.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/melcher-mustache.jpg','popup','width=500,height=333,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\/2009\/05\/melcher-mustache-tm.jpg\" height=\"286\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Melcher-Mustache\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pro skater <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/patrickmelcher.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/melcher-2nd-place-moustache-world.html\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Melcher<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>(right) finished second place in the &#8220;Imperial&#8221; division of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbeardchampionships.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Beard And Moustache Championships<\/a><\/strong> in Anchorage, Alaska.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The reigning champ, musician <strong>Alexander Antebi<\/strong>, preened and vamped his way to third place in what he dubbed his &#8220;Ziggy Czar Dust&#8217; getup, professional skateboarder (and Bristly Chap) <strong>Patrick Melcher<\/strong> took second place, and <strong>Benjamin Juergens<\/strong> came out of nowhere to take first place in his first-ever competition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bet those rides are going to go for more than a quarter now that it&#8217;s a champion. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/alltherage\/2009\/05\/bearded-tschorn-usa-dominates-world-beard-and-moustache-championships.html#more\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skateboardworks.com\/2009\/05\/25\/patrick-melcher-3rd-place-at-world-beard-and-moustache-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skateboardworks<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro skater Patrick Melcher (right) finished second place in the &#8220;Imperial&#8221; division of the World Beard And Moustache Championships in Anchorage, Alaska. The reigning champ, musician Alexander Antebi, preened and vamped his way to third place in what he dubbed his &#8220;Ziggy Czar Dust&#8217; getup, professional skateboarder (and Bristly Chap) Patrick Melcher took second place, [&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":[10,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285"}],"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=8285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8306,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions\/8306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}