{"id":1435,"date":"2011-01-05T01:57:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T08:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2011-06-30T18:04:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T01:04:49","slug":"ross-blasman-loses-fight-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2011\/01\/05\/ross-blasman-loses-fight-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Blasman Loses Fight With Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ardent CORBA member, Mountain Bike Unit founding member and organizer, and originator of CORBA&#8217;s Introduction to Mountain Biking Skills class died on December 31 after a three year battle with cancer. He was 59.<\/p>\n<p>Ross&#8217; contributions to the Santa Monica Mountains mountain bike community, as well as the local surfing community as an avid surfer and member of the Surfrider Foundation, are immeasurable.<\/p>\n<p>A memorial service will be held at Paramount Ranch in Agoura Hills in the coming weeks, and we will post the information.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1439\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/MBU-class-of-88002crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1439\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1439 \" title=\"MBU class of 88002crop\" src=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/MBU-class-of-88002crop-1024x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross Blasman (center) was a member of CORBA&#39;s first MBU class of 1988.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ardent CORBA member, Mountain Bike Unit founding member and organizer, and originator of CORBA&#8217;s Introduction to Mountain Biking Skills class died on December 31 after a three year battle with cancer. He was 59. Ross&#8217; contributions to the Santa Monica Mountains mountain bike community, as well as the local surfing community as an avid surfer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,14],"tags":[56,346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}