{"id":44293,"date":"2013-11-27T12:21:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T20:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44293"},"modified":"2013-11-27T12:21:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T20:21:56","slug":"the-puehse-twins-move-on-to-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44293","title":{"rendered":"The Puehse Twins Move On To Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/twins_skaters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-44294\" alt=\"twins_skaters\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/twins_skaters-200x133.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/twins_skaters-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/twins_skaters-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/twins_skaters.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>In another sign of the skateboard industry&#8217;s mainstream collapse, the <strong>Puehse\u00a0Twins<\/strong>, two underage skateboarders whose dad seemed dead set on making them the next <strong>Tony Hawk<\/strong> in terms of sponsorship dollars and media coverage, have apparently decided that the real money is in doubles tennis, according to a story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/18kwAnX\"><em><strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eschewing a future as twin Tony Hawks, Nic and Tristan decided two years ago to try to become the next <strong>Bob<\/strong> and <strong>Mike Bryan<\/strong>, the No. 1-ranked men\u2019s doubles tennis team. The jump from the anarchistic world of skateboarding to the button-down sport of tennis has been their toughest trick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can&#8217;t say we even wondered what these talented twins were up to lately, but seriuosly, if they&#8217;re really in it for the money, shouldn&#8217;t they be practicing their golf stroke?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/18kwAnX\">The New York Times<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another sign of the skateboard industry&#8217;s mainstream collapse, the Puehse\u00a0Twins, two underage skateboarders whose dad seemed dead set on making them the next Tony Hawk in terms of sponsorship dollars and media coverage, have apparently decided that the real money is in doubles tennis, according to a story in the New York Times. Eschewing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44293"}],"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=44293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44295,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44293\/revisions\/44295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}