{"id":975,"date":"2015-07-12T15:24:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T15:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/?p=975"},"modified":"2015-07-12T15:24:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T15:24:57","slug":"skim-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/2015\/07\/12\/skim-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Skimboarding – is it a religion?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skateboarding is mainstream. Surfing is a religion. When is skimboarding going to get there?<\/p>\n

Yesterday I spent the good part of the day at a skimboarding competition in St. George Utah. There were competitors there from St. George, Washington State, Sacramento California, Germany, the Netherlands and a kid representing a Polish skimboarding company. almost 30 years ago when I started skimboarding I could not have imagine where this sport was going to go. This was the 18th year of the competition. It is amazing what some of these kids can do on a board. One of the cool things in St. George is all the young kids that enter the competition.<\/p>\n

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Skimboarding is gaining some traction. \u00a0I think what is going to take it to the skate\/surfing level is the simple skimpool you can put in your back yard. \u00a0I will right more about that later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skateboarding is mainstream. Surfing is a religion. When is skimboarding going to get there? Yesterday I spent the good part of the day at a skimboarding competition in St. George Utah. There were competitors there from St. George, Washington State, Sacramento California, Germany, the Netherlands and a kid representing a Polish skimboarding company. almost 30 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-history","7":"category-journal-entry","8":"entry"},"modified_by":"D. Gardner","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32Jie-fJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}