{"id":141379,"date":"2018-04-07T18:55:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T01:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=141379"},"modified":"2018-04-07T18:55:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T01:55:50","slug":"skateboarders-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=141379","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarders Won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Skate parks, once considered a menace, are booming everywhere around the world. Now we head toward the first skateboarding Olympics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xyeyil e2kc3sl0\">In July 1995, the artist Maura Sheehan installed a skateable sculpture in the anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge, over on the Brooklyn side. Ms. Sheehan became fascinated with skateboarders after observing large groups of them careening through the streets downtown in the era before 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xyeyil e2kc3sl0\">Much of that part of the city was still accessible to herds of rule-bending youth. \u201cTheir building of community is really a profound thing\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/07\/style\/skateparks-around-the-world.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skate parks, once considered a menace, are booming everywhere around the world. Now we head toward the first skateboarding Olympics. In July 1995, the artist Maura Sheehan installed a skateable sculpture in the anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge, over on the Brooklyn side. Ms. Sheehan became fascinated with skateboarders after observing large groups of them [&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-141379","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\/141379","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=141379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141380,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141379\/revisions\/141380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}