{"id":714,"date":"2008-04-10T08:24:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T16:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=714"},"modified":"2008-04-10T08:24:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T16:24:30","slug":"vert-back-in-at-x-games-oh-yippie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"Vert Back In At X Games: Oh Yippie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>X Games<\/strong> are so totally irrelevant to us that even following this recent vert debacle is getting boring. Apparently, X Games General Manager <strong>Chris Stiepock<\/strong> is now saying that vert is back in the TV show, but it isn&#8217;t because anyone complained, or because skaters threatened to boycott the mondo, super kicker, or because readers voted to keep vert. No, no, no. It&#8217;s because of the planning process.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We were trying to put enough vert features in the park course to satisfy the vert skateboarders,&#8221; said X Games General Manager Chris Stiepock. &#8220;In the process,  the skaters realized there was no way we were going to be able to do that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, Chris. Fine. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/sports\/20080410-9999-1s10xgames.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The X Games are so totally irrelevant to us that even following this recent vert debacle is getting boring. Apparently, X Games General Manager Chris Stiepock is now saying that vert is back in the TV show, but it isn&#8217;t because anyone complained, or because skaters threatened to boycott the mondo, super kicker, or because [&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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714"}],"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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}