{"id":24053,"date":"2015-04-07T12:16:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T17:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/?p=24053"},"modified":"2015-04-07T12:23:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T17:23:01","slug":"x-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/x-games\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was really great to see the X-Games come to Austin last year &#8211; the first of a three-year stand in the Live Music Capitol of the World. Here&#8217;s some of my visual takeaways. Click on a photo to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/files\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-04.38.21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24054 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/files\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-04.38.21-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Click to enlarge Photo (c) 2014 Doug Van Pelt\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-04.38.21-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-04.38.21-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/files\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.15.15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24056 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/files\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.15.15-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Photo (c) 2014 Doug Van Pelt\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.15.15-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.15.15-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/files\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.15.39.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24057 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/files\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.15.39-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Photo (c) 2014 Doug Van Pelt\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.15.39-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.15.39-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a 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srcset=\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.16.10-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.16.10-1-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/files\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.18.08-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24060 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/files\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.18.08-3-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Photo (c) 2014 Doug Van Pelt\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.18.08-3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.18.08-3-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/files\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.22.48-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24061 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/files\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.22.48-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Photo (c) 2014 Doug Van Pelt\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.22.48-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.22.48-1-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/files\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.23.18-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24062 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/files\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.23.18-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Click to enlarge Photo (c) 2014 Doug Van Pelt\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.23.18-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.23.18-1-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/files\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.23.18-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24063 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/files\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.23.18-2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Click to enlarge Photo (c) 2014 Doug Van Pelt\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.23.18-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.23.18-2-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/files\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-04.39.31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24055 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/files\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-04.39.31-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Click to enlarge Photo (c) 2014 Doug Van Pelt\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-04.39.31-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-04.39.31-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much more to come soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was really great to see the X-Games come to Austin last year &#8211; the first of a three-year stand in the Live Music Capitol of the World. Here&#8217;s some of my visual takeaways. Click on a photo to enlarge. Much more to come soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3845,1021,3847,1389,1392,3846,2778,3286,3526],"class_list":["post-24053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-bmx","tag-espn","tag-extreme-sports","tag-hm","tag-hm-magazine","tag-mega-ramp","tag-skateboarding","tag-tony-hawk","tag-x-games","cat-17-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>X-Games - The Original Heaven&#039;s Metal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/x-games\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Doug Van Pelt\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/x-games\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/x-games\/\",\"name\":\"X-Games - The Original Heaven&#039;s Metal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/x-games\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/x-games\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.15.151.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-04-07T17:16:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-04-07T17:23:01+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/#\/schema\/person\/b155afeb7086c8182b3bb3b435e68c4b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/x-games\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/x-games\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/x-games\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.15.151.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-05-05.15.151.jpg\",\"width\":4288,\"height\":2848},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/x-games\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"X-Games\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/\",\"name\":\"The Original Heaven&#039;s Metal\",\"description\":\"Former Editor-in-Chief. 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