{"id":14070,"date":"2009-06-08T11:18:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T18:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14070"},"modified":"2009-06-08T11:48:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T18:48:21","slug":"skateboard-bazooka-and-the-skateboard-a-dogs-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14070","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard &#8211; Bazooka and the skateboard: a dog&#8217;s tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">TOKYO &#8211; He&#8217;s just a bulldog with stubby legs, but that hasn&#8217;t prevented Bazooka from becoming Japan&#8217;s top, and probably only, skateboarding dog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Demonstrating that every dog has his day, the two year-old pure-bred Old English Bulldog rolled down a Tokyo park on Monday, pushing his board with his hind feet and shifting his weight on all four to steer, just like two-legged riders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was love at first sight between the dog and his board, says Bazooka&#8217;s owner, Yoshio Ishikawa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;When he was 5-months old, he saw someone skateboarding in the &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/lifestyleMolt\/idUSTRE5571G120090608\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO &#8211; He&#8217;s just a bulldog with stubby legs, but that hasn&#8217;t prevented Bazooka from becoming Japan&#8217;s top, and probably only, skateboarding dog. Demonstrating that every dog has his day, the two year-old pure-bred Old English Bulldog rolled down a Tokyo park on Monday, pushing his board with his hind feet and shifting his weight [&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-14070","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\/14070","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=14070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14097,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14070\/revisions\/14097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}