{"id":109441,"date":"2015-08-22T08:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T15:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=109441"},"modified":"2015-08-22T08:21:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T15:21:23","slug":"video-street-luge-racing-like-skateboarding-on-your-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=109441","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Street luge racing: like skateboarding on your back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After originating in California, street luge is now a legitimate sport in its own right, but it also has an element of danger.<\/p>\n<p>Ever fancied hurtling down a hill lying flat on an oversized skateboard? Of course you have! The good news is \u2013 now you can not only do it, but it\u2019s actually recognised as a legitimate sport in its own right.<\/p>\n<p>Street luge is one of those activities that\u2019s so straight-up crazy it almost demands to be given a go. The principles are about as basic as they come: find a hill, lie on what is basically a plank of wood with wheels on it, keep going until you hit the bottom\u2026 and hope you don\u2019t hit anything else on the way down\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sponsored\/why-not\/11811424\/street-luge-racing.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?embedCode=VyaGszdzp37mhhRWHxffzktZQVFGhPY8&#038;width=585&#038;height=400&#038;deepLinkEmbedCode=VyaGszdzp37mhhRWHxffzktZQVFGhPY8&#038;video_pcode=RvbGU6Z74XE_a3bj4QwRGByhq9h2\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After originating in California, street luge is now a legitimate sport in its own right, but it also has an element of danger. Ever fancied hurtling down a hill lying flat on an oversized skateboard? Of course you have! The good news is \u2013 now you can not only do it, but it\u2019s actually recognised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,59,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-misc","category-skateboard-mountain-board","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109441","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=109441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109442,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109441\/revisions\/109442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}