{"id":6786,"date":"2009-03-25T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T14:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2009-03-25T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T15:00:01","slug":"jackson-jews-to-ride-worlds-longest-snowboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6786","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Jews To Ride World&#8217;s Longest Snowboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April Fools day <strong>Eric Sweet<\/strong>, 47, and nine other Jews will take a 36-foot-long snowboard to <strong>Jackson Hole Resort<\/strong> and hopefully ride into the record books on the world&#8217;s longest snowboard, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhguide.com\/article.php?art_id=4401\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Hole News &#38; Guide<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sweet has also procured a trademark hold from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office giving him rights to the name \u201cTen Jews, One Snowboard\u201d and \u201cThe Minyan Board.\u201d . . . Sweet says he\u2019s having fun with the whole project. . . . \u201cIt was more difficult to put 10 Jews together and agree on something,\u201d Sweet said. \u201cThat\u2019s part of what I think is funny: With 10 Jews, can we actually pull it off? I don\u2019t know. With 10 Jews on a snowboard, it\u2019s going to be hard for us to look athletic.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The board breaks down into 10 pieces so Sweet and his friends can ride up the lift. At the top they will apparently put the board together and then ride down the mountain (without any official permission from the resort, Sweet says). l&#8217;chaim<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhguide.com\/article.php?art_id=4401\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Hole News &#38; Guide<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April Fools day Eric Sweet, 47, and nine other Jews will take a 36-foot-long snowboard to Jackson Hole Resort and hopefully ride into the record books on the world&#8217;s longest snowboard, according to a story in the Jackson Hole News &#38; Guide. Sweet has also procured a trademark hold from the U.S. Patent and [&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\/6786"}],"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=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6787,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions\/6787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}