{"id":9760,"date":"2009-08-11T09:17:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T16:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9760"},"modified":"2009-08-11T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T02:22:31","slug":"american-snowboarders-pay-weed-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9760","title":{"rendered":"American Snowboarders Pay Weed Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two American snowboarders who last week were found in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9626\" target=\"_blank\">possession of marijuana<\/a><\/strong> in New Zealand have apparently been granted &#8220;diversion,&#8221; according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetski.eu\/news\/697\" target=\"_blank\">Planetski.eu<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The court heard the evidence yesterday and decided to grant them \u201cdiversion\u201d.  . . .This is a process whereby first-time offenders who meet certain criteria then pay an amount of money to a charity. . . They then avoid having a conviction entered against their name. . . It\u2019s not clear how much the men had to pay or which charity benefited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the cool thing about New Zealand? Their names were never released. . . so we&#8217;ll never know who it was &lt;smirk&gt;. But we&#8217;re guessing they&#8217;re both going to do well in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/opensnowboarding.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand Open<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetski.eu\/news\/697\" target=\"_blank\">Planet Ski<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/your-town\/wanaka\/69206\/us-snowboarders-complete-diversion\" target=\"_blank\">Otago Daily Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two American snowboarders who last week were found in possession of marijuana in New Zealand have apparently been granted &#8220;diversion,&#8221; according to a story on Planetski.eu. The court heard the evidence yesterday and decided to grant them \u201cdiversion\u201d. . . .This is a process whereby first-time offenders who meet certain criteria then pay an amount [&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":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760"}],"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=9760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9781,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions\/9781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}