{"id":368,"date":"2008-02-06T09:39:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T17:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2008-02-06T09:54:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T17:54:34","slug":"bleiler-knocks-off-the-nudies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"Bleiler Knocks Off The Nudies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2669584.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2669584.jpg','popup','width=250,height=395,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\/2669584-tm.jpg\" height=\"316\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"2669584\" \/><\/a>Apparently, all those scantily clad images of <strong>Gretchen Bleiler<\/strong> from <strong>FHM<\/strong> and <strong>ESPN<\/strong> are a thing of the past as the high queen of the u-jump decides to stop listening to those people who kept trying to get her to sell her sex.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These days, Bleiler wants to show substance beyond skin, and the shift in attitude is the first signal that she has begun to transcend the sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like in the past I felt pressured to bring exposure to myself as well as my sport. I had those opportunities and maybe didn&#8217;t have the best advice and went along with it and never really felt like it was &#8216;me,&#8217; &#8221; she said. &#8220;But now I&#8217;ve come so far and am so much more confident in who I am and the path I need to follow, and I won&#8217;t be a part of those types of opportunities anymore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s cool, though. It shows that I have come a long way. It&#8217;s too bad that when you are a woman in sports that those are the opportunities you get, to show your skin. But it&#8217;s a fact of life, and I&#8217;ve learned about it along the way. It won&#8217;t happen again.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exactly. Thanks for taking the high road, Gretchen. Maybe <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=84\" target=\"_blank\">some of the other girls<\/a><\/strong> will follow your lead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/sports\/ci_8169330\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Post<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, all those scantily clad images of Gretchen Bleiler from FHM and ESPN are a thing of the past as the high queen of the u-jump decides to stop listening to those people who kept trying to get her to sell her sex. These days, Bleiler wants to show substance beyond skin, and the shift [&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":[15,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368"}],"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=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}