{"id":152245,"date":"2019-07-31T21:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=152245"},"modified":"2019-07-31T21:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T04:00:05","slug":"video-adaptive-skateboarder-overcomes-the-odds-and-hopes-you-do-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=152245","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Adaptive skateboarder overcomes the odds &#8212; and hopes you do, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Beauchesne has loved skateboarding ever since he started playing the Tony Hawk video game when he was a kid. But it&#8217;s a sport that he was told to never participate in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had meningococcemia when I was 18 months old. That caused three limbs to be amputated, and I have some bone deformity in my leg,\u201d he explained. \u201cThanks to all the haters, naysayers and the people who said I could never do anything. That really drove me to be successful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HSBcGr2DXdY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Beauchesne has loved skateboarding ever since he started playing the Tony Hawk video game when he was a kid. But it&#8217;s a sport that he was told to never participate in. &#8220;I had meningococcemia when I was 18 months old. That caused three limbs to be amputated, and I have some bone deformity in [&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-152245","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\/152245","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=152245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152246,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152245\/revisions\/152246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}