{"id":12864,"date":"2010-01-04T13:07:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T21:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12864"},"modified":"2010-01-04T21:33:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T05:33:07","slug":"a-happy-kevin-pearce-story-turned-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12864","title":{"rendered":"A Happy Kevin Pearce Story Turned Sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/articleInline-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/articleInline-1.jpg','popup','width=190,height=277,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\/2010\/01\/articleInline-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"145\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Articleinline-1\" \/><\/a><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/05\/sports\/olympics\/05pearce.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> writer <strong>John Brauch<\/strong> had just completed a profile on <strong>Kevin Pearce<\/strong> when he got news of the snowboarder&#8217;s injury. Here&#8217;s how he tells it in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/05\/sports\/olympics\/05pearce.html\" target=\"_blank\">NYT<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many know Kevin Pearce. Many know <strong>Simon Pearce<\/strong>. Few link them together. I found it fascinating \u2014 a father and son, connected by their ability to create in utterly different disciplines, famous to vastly different audiences. . . Yes, that was the story. . . On Dec. 21, <strong>Pia Pearce<\/strong> cheerfully gave a tour of the family\u2019s house in Norwich, Vt., and the house\u2019s renovated barn, well known on the snowboarding circuit as the ultimate hangout \u2014 a skateboard ramp in back, a great room inside stocked with a pool table, foosball, air hockey, stereo, guitars, a refrigerator and couches. . . The story was written Thursday. A call to the Pearce house later that afternoon was intended to let them know and to double-check a couple of things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, that is when Brauch learned that Kevin had been injured earlier in the day. Read the rest of the story by clicking the link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/05\/sports\/olympics\/05pearce.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times writer John Brauch had just completed a profile on Kevin Pearce when he got news of the snowboarder&#8217;s injury. Here&#8217;s how he tells it in the NYT. Many know Kevin Pearce. Many know Simon Pearce. Few link them together. I found it fascinating \u2014 a father and son, connected by their ability [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12864"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12870,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864\/revisions\/12870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}