{"id":9620,"date":"2009-08-03T03:41:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T10:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9620"},"modified":"2009-09-15T19:26:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T02:26:17","slug":"skate-filler-from-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9620","title":{"rendered":"Skate Filler From the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/xgames600.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/xgames600.jpg','popup','width=600,height=360,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\/2009\/08\/xgames600-tm.jpg\" height=\"120\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Xgames600\" \/><\/a>Good writing is difficult work. It takes a skilled reporter like the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/03\/sports\/03xgames.html?_r=1&amp;hpw\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong>  Matt Higgins<\/strong> to come up with ledes as stunning irrelevant as the one that kicks off his story on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/03\/sports\/03xgames.html?_r=1&amp;hpw\" target=\"_blank\">X Games Skate Park event<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1978, Steve Alba competed at the first professional pool skateboarding competition in Spring Valley, Calif., and won. On Sunday, in the final event of the X Games, Alba, 46, competed on the skateboard park Legends course, featuring pool elements, and finished ninth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How is that for reaching? Read the rest for a nice <em>New York Times<\/em> overview of a skateboarding competition few of its readers even care about much less understand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/03\/sports\/03xgames.html?_r=1&amp;hpw\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good writing is difficult work. It takes a skilled reporter like the New York Times&#8217; Matt Higgins to come up with ledes as stunning irrelevant as the one that kicks off his story on the X Games Skate Park event. In 1978, Steve Alba competed at the first professional pool skateboarding competition in Spring Valley, [&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\/9620"}],"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=9620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10575,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9620\/revisions\/10575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}