{"id":21127,"date":"2011-01-24T08:10:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T16:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21127"},"modified":"2011-01-24T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T16:12:10","slug":"denver-big-air-quote-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21127","title":{"rendered":"Denver Big Air Quote Of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Denver_bigair.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Denver_bigair.jpg','popup','width=114,height=133,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\/2011\/01\/Denver_bigair-tm.jpg\" height=\"116\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Denver Bigair\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19473\" target=\"_blank\">We mentioned the Denver Big Air contest<\/a><\/strong> in the past when <strong>Metro Denver Sports Commission<\/strong> first thought they could get people to pay $75 a head to stand out in the cold and watch a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denversports.org\/denverbigair\" target=\"_blank\">big air snowboard contest<\/a><\/strong>. After having lowed the price to an overpriced $45 they&#8217;re still getting grief because of the lack of big name talent in the event, according to a story on the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/extremes\/ci_17162960\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Post<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This forced USSA Competition Director <strong>Eric Webster<\/strong> to deliver one of the best lines we&#8217;ve heard this week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is a legitimate field of skiers and snowboarders,&#8221; said competition director Eric Webster. &#8220;It&#8217;s not just people we dragged off the street.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that&#8217;s a bummer, because just think how entertaining this sideshow snowboard event would be if competitors were simply &#8220;dragged off the street.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/extremes\/ci_17162960\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Post<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We mentioned the Denver Big Air contest in the past when Metro Denver Sports Commission first thought they could get people to pay $75 a head to stand out in the cold and watch a big air snowboard contest. After having lowed the price to an overpriced $45 they&#8217;re still getting grief because of the [&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\/21127"}],"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=21127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21129,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21127\/revisions\/21129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}