{"id":360,"date":"2008-02-05T22:53:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T06:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2008-02-05T23:01:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T07:01:40","slug":"why-is-nate-holland-such-a-skier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Nate Holland Such A Skier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/48-nateholland.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/48-nateholland.jpg','popup','width=250,height=167,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\/2008\/02\/48-nateholland-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"48-Nateholland\" \/><\/a>While watching the <strong>2008 ESPN Winter X Games<\/strong> &#8220;X Course&#8221; or whatever they are calling boardercross this year, we found ourselves wishing for a new winner. It&#8217;s just that <strong>Nate Holland<\/strong> seems to be everything that snowboarding never was: he&#8217;s brash, jocky, and completely devoid of style. There really seems to be nothing cool about the guy.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously he&#8217;s a great boardercross racer, winning three X Games in a row is not easy to do, but shouldn&#8217;t he just be a pro ski racer or something? We were looking at the logos on his board and seriously asking ourselves if he really is sponsored by <strong>Burton<\/strong> and <strong>Electric<\/strong> or if he just puts the stickers on there hoping he&#8217;s going to eventually get paid. Electric cared enough to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricvisual.com\/splash.php\" target=\"_blank\">put him on their homepage<\/a><\/strong> so he must be legit there. We don&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p>Click the link below for a short profile in his local paper.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tahoe-world.com\/content\/view\/11029\/57\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tahoe World<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While watching the 2008 ESPN Winter X Games &#8220;X Course&#8221; or whatever they are calling boardercross this year, we found ourselves wishing for a new winner. It&#8217;s just that Nate Holland seems to be everything that snowboarding never was: he&#8217;s brash, jocky, and completely devoid of style. There really seems to be nothing cool about [&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\/360"}],"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=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}