{"id":21813,"date":"2011-03-03T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T23:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21813"},"modified":"2011-03-03T15:01:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T23:01:01","slug":"priest-gets-phd-in-snowboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21813","title":{"rendered":"Priest Gets PhD In Snowboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anglican Priest, the <strong>Rev. Neil Elliot<\/strong>, from Trail, British Columbia, has reportedly just completed his thesis for a PhD in Snowboarding (or as he calls it &#8220;soulriding&#8221;) from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingston.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kingston University<\/a><\/strong> in London England, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespec.com\/news\/canada\/article\/495918--dude-is-snowboarding-spiritual\" target=\"_blank\">The Spec<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s the first PhD in snowboarding at all, so it\u2019s pretty unique,\u201d said Elliot. \u201cIt gave me an excuse to get out and participate in a sport I love and it provided me with a framework to examine human spirituality.\u201d . . . An ordained priest with a master\u2019s degree in theology and Islamic studies, Elliot decided to undertake his doctorate in the sociology of religion at the secular Kingston University in London, England. . . He wanted to get away from theology and look \u201cat what\u2019s happening on the ground and the kind of stuff you can actually measure.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ve heard of some pretty big stretches before, but this may be the most evolved excuse to go snowboarding we&#8217;ve ever heard. We&#8217;ve read the story twice and still have no idea what Rev. Elliot is talking about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespec.com\/news\/canada\/article\/495918--dude-is-snowboarding-spiritual\" target=\"_blank\">The Spec<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anglican Priest, the Rev. Neil Elliot, from Trail, British Columbia, has reportedly just completed his thesis for a PhD in Snowboarding (or as he calls it &#8220;soulriding&#8221;) from Kingston University in London England, according to a story on The Spec. \u201cIt\u2019s the first PhD in snowboarding at all, so it\u2019s pretty unique,\u201d said Elliot. \u201cIt [&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\/21813"}],"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=21813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21814,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21813\/revisions\/21814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}