{"id":132943,"date":"2017-06-18T08:04:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T15:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=132943"},"modified":"2017-06-18T08:04:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T15:04:19","slug":"video-david-hackett-the-55-year-old-pro-skateboarder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=132943","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; David Hackett, the 55-year-old pro skateboarder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no slowing down David Hackett.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old pro skateboarder is a legend, an inspiration and a guy who is still bringing the sport to another level.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s, when a major drought hit California, the Malibu native and his friends began skateboarding in empty swimming pools. That\u2019s right. He was one of the first to bring skateboarding to that level, turning a recreational hobby into a thrilling sport.<\/p>\n<p>And, he is still going strong today. At 45, he won\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/purpose2play.com\/2017\/06\/17\/david-hackett-55-year-old-pro-skateboarder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0sgnkzOraSQ?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no slowing down David Hackett. The 55-year-old pro skateboarder is a legend, an inspiration and a guy who is still bringing the sport to another level. In the 1970s, when a major drought hit California, the Malibu native and his friends began skateboarding in empty swimming pools. That\u2019s right. He was one of the [&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-132943","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\/132943","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=132943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132944,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132943\/revisions\/132944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}