{"id":48,"date":"2014-01-22T15:54:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T20:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/?p=48"},"modified":"2014-01-22T15:54:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T20:54:34","slug":"shaun-white-withdraws-from-x-games-to-focus-on-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/2014\/01\/22\/shaun-white-withdraws-from-x-games-to-focus-on-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaun White withdraws from X Games to focus on Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/01\/shaunwhite.jpg\" alt=\"shaunwhite\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/01\/shaunwhite.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/01\/shaunwhite-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nOne athlete that will not be at the X Games in Apsen, CO this week is Shaun White.<\/p>\n<p>White will skip the X Games so that he can focus on the upcoming Olympics.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>THIS JUST IN: Shaun White pulls out of X Games Aspen in order to prepare for Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/statuses\/426078286502834176\">January 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>An eight-time superpipe and five-time slopestyle gold medalist, White was scheduled to compete in both events. He had never missed an X Games Aspen event.<\/p>\n<p>White qualified for Sochi in the debuting slopestyle and halfpipe. White is a two-time gold medalist in halfpipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One athlete that will not be at the X Games in Apsen, CO this week is Shaun White. White will skip the X Games so that he can focus on the upcoming Olympics. THIS JUST IN: Shaun White pulls out of X Games Aspen in order to prepare for Winter Olympics. &mdash; SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-48","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}