{"id":8416,"date":"2009-05-29T09:47:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T16:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8416"},"modified":"2009-05-29T09:53:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T16:53:45","slug":"kevin-jones-climbs-back-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8416","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Jones Climbs Back On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/as-snb-kj-heli-576jpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/as-snb-kj-heli-576jpg.jpeg','popup','width=576,height=324,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\/as-snb-kj-heli-576-tm.jpg\" height=\"241\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"As Snb Kj Heli 576.Jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of our favorite snowboarders of all time is back on board after a pretty lengthy hiatus and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/news\/story?id=4206531\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN Action<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Nate Deschenes<\/strong> got the scoop on <strong>Kevin Jones<\/strong>&#8216; self-financed snowboard resurection from the man himself.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mentally I think you feel stronger\u2014at least I do. And there is always the feeling your body is older and you can&#8217;t tomahawk out of something and be back on it the next day. So you have to adjust there. But I think young and hungry is a relative term. You are young and hungry and you want to have what guys have already had. I&#8217;ve already had it. This thing I am doing now is not for the money &#8212; I&#8217;m not getting paid by anyone. I don&#8217;t have a contract or anything; I am only doing this for me. There&#8217;s nothing in this industry that I can do anymore. What, am I going to be Transworld&#8217;s Snowboarder of the Year a fourth time? NO! Am I going to be ESPN&#8217;s rider of the year again? NO! Do I want to go win the X Games again? NO! For me this is to prove to people that, no, you are not done at 30\u2014you are just starting&#8230;in my opinion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reading this interview just reminded us how much we&#8217;ve missed Kevin, and how much we&#8217;re looking forward to seeing the new footage.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/news\/story?id=4206531\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN.com\/action<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our favorite snowboarders of all time is back on board after a pretty lengthy hiatus and ESPN Action Nate Deschenes got the scoop on Kevin Jones&#8216; self-financed snowboard resurection from the man himself. Mentally I think you feel stronger\u2014at least I do. And there is always the feeling your body is older and [&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\/8416"}],"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=8416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8419,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions\/8419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}