{"id":25331,"date":"1999-05-01T21:02:19","date_gmt":"1999-05-01T21:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=25331"},"modified":"2014-11-08T18:43:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T02:43:13","slug":"jeff-thrush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/jeff-thrush\/","title":{"rendered":"JEFF THRUSH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JEFF THRUSH<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> interview by Murf<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> photos by Josh Tomkins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong> 27<br \/>\n<strong>From:<\/strong> Michigan<br \/>\n<strong>Living Now:<\/strong> Encinitas, CA<br \/>\n<strong>Sponsors:<\/strong> Vans, Hurley, Arnette, Indy, Wounded Knee<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where did you start skating?<\/strong><br \/>\nI skated the Turf and local parks through 1989. After a short stay in Phoenix, I moved to Florida and hooked up with Rob Mertz and Tom Groholski.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was it like skating with Tom?<\/strong><br \/>\nTom is a true skateboarder; he just rips. He was my inspiration to skate. He taught me to just skate for fun and not worry about sponsors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When did you decide to move out West?<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 1998, I moved to Encinitas to build the YMCA park with Tim Payne. So, I sold everything I had, drove my truck to Encinitas and lived out of my truck in the YMCA parking lot for 4 months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you doing for work now?<\/strong><br \/>\nI work at the YMCA for no pay, but I skate for free. I\u2019m still down with building skateparks when the opportunity arises.<\/p>\n<p><strong>East Coast vs. West Coast?<\/strong><br \/>\nThere\u2019s no real rivalry anymore. Everybody is just stoked to skate with each other, it doesn\u2019t matter where you\u2019re from. Half the guys I skate with out here are from the East Coast, anyway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shout outs?<\/strong><br \/>\nThanks to Andy, Murf, Tom Groholski and Mark Foster who runs the YMCA. Ride everything.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/the-juice-shop\/#backissues\">TO ORDER JUICE MAGAZINE ISSUE #44, PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEFF THRUSH interview by Murf photos by Josh Tomkins Age: 27 From: Michigan Living Now: Encinitas, CA Sponsors: Vans, Hurley, Arnette, Indy, Wounded Knee Where did you start skating? I skated the Turf and local parks through 1989. After a short stay in Phoenix, I moved to Florida and hooked up with Rob Mertz and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4028,4041],"tags":[6812,3818,14255,4332,5742,14262,29,3171],"class_list":["post-25331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","category-skate-2","tag-jeff-thrush","tag-jim-murphy","tag-juice-magazine","tag-murf","tag-rob-mertz","tag-skate","tag-skateboarding","tag-tom-groholski"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/JEFFTHRUSH.png","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25331"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48714,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25331\/revisions\/48714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}