{"id":39396,"date":"2013-01-15T12:46:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T20:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=39396"},"modified":"2013-01-15T12:57:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T20:57:40","slug":"gretchen-bleiler-talks-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=39396","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Bleiler Talks Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/story-bleiler-vision-snowbojohn-175212.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/story-bleiler-vision-snowbojohn-175212.jpg','popup','width=800,height=558,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\/2013\/01\/story-bleiler-vision-snowbojohn-175212-tm.jpg\" height=\"139\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Story-Bleiler-Vision-Snowbojohn-175212\" \/><\/a>After that eye-socket shattering injury during trampoline training last summer, Olympic silver medalist snowboarder <strong>Gretchen Bleiler,<\/strong> 31, talks about her return to snowboarding, the X Games, the upcoming Olympics, and what it all means with the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.net\/stories\/2013\/01\/15\/snowboarder-gretchen-bleiler-tries-regain-form-after-serious-eye-injury\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, after surgery to repair the eye socket, dealing with double vision and headaches so severe she felt like she was constantly in a wave pool, Bleiler has a different take: There&#8217;s no way she could ever give up snowboarding. . . And, of course, that&#8217;s the competitor talking. . . &#8220;It was a terrible experience,&#8221; said the 31-year-old Bleiler, who&#8217;s from Aspen, Colo. &#8220;Now that I&#8217;m back, I have a new perspective. I&#8217;m just letting myself have fun, let everything come back when it comes back. That&#8217;s where I&#8217;m at mentally with everything.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She hasn&#8217;t competed since here injury, but according to the story she may compete in the Winter X Games this month for a shot at  her fifth gold medal. We hope she rides safe and wish her the best.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.net\/stories\/2013\/01\/15\/snowboarder-gretchen-bleiler-tries-regain-form-after-serious-eye-injury\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After that eye-socket shattering injury during trampoline training last summer, Olympic silver medalist snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler, 31, talks about her return to snowboarding, the X Games, the upcoming Olympics, and what it all means with the Associated Press. Now, after surgery to repair the eye socket, dealing with double vision and headaches so severe she [&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\/39396"}],"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=39396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39399,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39396\/revisions\/39399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}