{"id":120531,"date":"2016-07-16T08:41:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T15:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=120531"},"modified":"2016-07-16T08:41:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T15:41:36","slug":"brazil-skateboard-scheme-keeps-kids-from-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=120531","title":{"rendered":"Brazil skateboard scheme keeps kids from crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil is the birthplace of one of the world&#8217;s most famous skateboarders, Bob Burnquist, and Brazil is one of the world&#8217;s leading skateboarding nations.<\/p>\n<p>Sandro Testinha is a passionate skateboarder from S\u00e3o Paulo who worked as a volunteer in one of Brazil&#8217;s most dangerous and violent juvenile prisons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw that many of those jailed for committing terrible crimes were just like me,&#8221; he says. &#8220;The only difference was skateboarding\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/36786701\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil is the birthplace of one of the world&#8217;s most famous skateboarders, Bob Burnquist, and Brazil is one of the world&#8217;s leading skateboarding nations. Sandro Testinha is a passionate skateboarder from S\u00e3o Paulo who worked as a volunteer in one of Brazil&#8217;s most dangerous and violent juvenile prisons. &#8220;I saw that many of those jailed [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120531","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=120531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120532,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120531\/revisions\/120532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}