{"id":26813,"date":"2011-12-05T07:47:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26813"},"modified":"2011-12-05T10:56:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T18:56:18","slug":"why-austin-smith-drinks-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26813","title":{"rendered":"Why Austin Smith Drinks Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/11_NITRO_LIFESTYLES_%C2%A9WELSH_011.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/11_NITRO_LIFESTYLES_%C2%A9WELSH_011.jpg','popup','width=640,height=640,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\/12\/11_NITRO_LIFESTYLES_%C2%A9WELSH_011-tm.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"11 Nitro Lifestyles \u00a9Welsh 011\" \/><\/a>Snowboarder <strong>Austin Smith<\/strong> is a man after our own hearts. After seeing the deluge of carbonated, caffeinated, high fructose corn sweetener pushers seemingly taking over the snowboarding sponsorship scene he did something about it. He and <strong>Bryan Fox<\/strong> began printing hoodies, t-shirts and stickers with a simple message: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wedrinkwater.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drink Water<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yobeat.com\/2011\/12\/05\/just-drink-water\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yobeat.com<\/a><\/strong> interviewed Smith to get the background on the entire effort.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Right now energy drinks are taking over the world and especially taking over the pastime of snowboarding. More than anything else, I don\u2019t like what\u2019s they\u2019re selling. We\u2019re reminding people of their alternative. . . Once I realized I was never going to snowboard for any energy drink company, no matter how much money they offered me, I wanted to respond in a positive way. Instead of doing nothing, I wanted to turn it around. It needed to be done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And Smith and Fox are not alone. They already have <strong>Louif Paradis<\/strong>, <strong>Keegah Valaika<\/strong>, <strong>Scotty Wittlake<\/strong>, <strong>Curtis Ciszek<\/strong>, <strong>Jake OE<\/strong>, <strong>Scott Blum<\/strong>, <strong>Jake Kuzyk<\/strong>, and <strong>Josh Dirksen<\/strong> on the program. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yobeat.com\/2011\/12\/05\/just-drink-water\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click the link<\/a><\/strong> for the rest of the interview then visit the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wedrinkwater.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WeDrinkWater.com<\/a><\/strong> site to support the cause.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yobeat.com\/2011\/12\/05\/just-drink-water\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yobeat.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snowboarder Austin Smith is a man after our own hearts. After seeing the deluge of carbonated, caffeinated, high fructose corn sweetener pushers seemingly taking over the snowboarding sponsorship scene he did something about it. He and Bryan Fox began printing hoodies, t-shirts and stickers with a simple message: Drink Water. Yobeat.com interviewed Smith to get [&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\/26813"}],"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=26813"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26819,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26813\/revisions\/26819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}