{"id":100980,"date":"2014-12-02T21:51:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T04:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=100980"},"modified":"2014-12-02T21:51:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T04:51:29","slug":"skateboard-video-the-state-of-skate-skateistan-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=100980","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard Video &#8211; The State of Skate &#8211; Skateistan in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are now over 750 skateboarders in Afghanistan &#8211; and nearly half of them are girls. How did this even happen? In a place where the female literacy rate is only 13%, where girls access to education, let alone sports, is barely existent&#8230; The Skateistan girls are doing it all. Watch this video and learn the incredible story of skateboarding in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>This December, we are trying to raise $60,000 to keep providing safe spaces in Afghanistan, Cambodia, and South Africa. Because kids deserve more than just a meal &#8211; they deserve an education and a safe place to play and grow.<\/p>\n<p>Get involved, become a supporter, and help us reach our fundraising goal this December.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/112285615?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ff59a7\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are now over 750 skateboarders in Afghanistan &#8211; and nearly half of them are girls. How did this even happen? In a place where the female literacy rate is only 13%, where girls access to education, let alone sports, is barely existent&#8230; The Skateistan girls are doing it all. Watch this video and learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skateboard-mountain-board","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100981,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100980\/revisions\/100981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}