{"id":31893,"date":"2012-08-23T18:46:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T01:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=31893"},"modified":"2012-08-23T18:53:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T01:53:33","slug":"x-games-crosses-out-snowboard-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=31893","title":{"rendered":"X Games Crosses Out Snowboard X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/X_Game_Logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/X_Game_Logo.jpg','popup','width=250,height=300,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\/2012\/08\/X_Game_Logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"120\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"X Game Logo\" \/><\/a>While that silly sport where six snowboarders bomb down the same race course all together is still in the Olympics, it will not be in the 2013 X Games, according to a  story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/xgames\/story\/_\/id\/8297792\/snowboarder-x-skier-x-dropped-x-games\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN.com\/Action<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There wasn&#8217;t one single factor that led to this decision,&#8221; said <strong>Tim Reed<\/strong>, senior director of content strategy for ESPN X Games. &#8220;It just comes down to filling the schedule with how much we believe we need to make the event enjoyable to the fans and deliver on what we need from a product standpoint.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reminds us of the way we felt when ESPN cut <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/lT9nyBrI2o8\" target=\"_blank\">super modified shovel racing<\/a><\/strong> from their live, faux-sporting, action entertainment television event schedule. Yeah, we didn&#8217;t feel anything at all. Hey, maybe someday, there won&#8217;t even be an X Games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/xgames\/story\/_\/id\/8297792\/snowboarder-x-skier-x-dropped-x-games\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While that silly sport where six snowboarders bomb down the same race course all together is still in the Olympics, it will not be in the 2013 X Games, according to a story on ESPN.com\/Action. &#8220;There wasn&#8217;t one single factor that led to this decision,&#8221; said Tim Reed, senior director of content strategy for ESPN [&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\/31893"}],"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=31893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31897,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31893\/revisions\/31897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}