{"id":738,"date":"2007-08-08T08:39:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T15:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2007-08-08T08:39:08","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T15:39:08","slug":"jake-brown-the-harder-they-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Jake Brown: The Harder They Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Carlsbadistanian<\/em> vert skater <strong>Jake Brown<\/strong> has had a full media schedule since falling 46 feet to flat during the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sOKhe9k4eg4\" target=\"_blank\">X Games Big Air<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>competition in Carson, California last week. In fact, from a media perspective nearly dying on live TV may be the best thing that ever happened to the 32-year-old Australian native. He&#8217;s been on <strong>Good Morning America<\/strong>, <strong>Today Show<\/strong>, and even <strong>Larry King<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brown&#8217;s media requests since the fall have been virtually nonstop &#8211; MTV, Fuel TV and Australian television, to name a few. &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty wild, man,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;I&#8217;m taking it in stride. I hope I&#8217;m doing skateboarding justice.&#8221; . . . Brown said he plans to resume skating in 2-3 weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jake, we&#8217;re just glad you&#8217;re okay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/sports\/20070808-9999-1s8xgames.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbadistanian vert skater Jake Brown has had a full media schedule since falling 46 feet to flat during the X Games Big Air competition in Carson, California last week. In fact, from a media perspective nearly dying on live TV may be the best thing that ever happened to the 32-year-old Australian native. He&#8217;s been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}