{"id":15251,"date":"2009-06-28T12:31:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T19:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15251"},"modified":"2009-06-28T12:31:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T19:31:49","slug":"skateboard-annual-event-encourages-local-females-to-skateboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15251","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard &#8211; Annual event encourages local females to skateboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Anne Klazek first started skateboarding eight years ago after a boy in a youth program she worked for gave her his old beater skateboard to use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll never forget that,&#8221; Klazek says. &#8220;I was so excited and I started learning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After picking up some tips and tricks from the kids in the program, Klazek signed up for some lessons through the recreation program in Calgary, Alberta, her hometown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;It was hilarious,&#8221; Klazek recalls, &#8220;because it was me and a whole group of 12-year-old boys, and I was about 20 at the time.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/Annual+event+encourages+local+females+skateboard\/1730206\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details\u00c2\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Klazek first started skateboarding eight years ago after a boy in a youth program she worked for gave her his old beater skateboard to use. &#8220;I&#8217;ll never forget that,&#8221; Klazek says. &#8220;I was so excited and I started learning.&#8221; After picking up some tips and tricks from the kids in the program, Klazek signed [&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-15251","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\/15251","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=15251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15252,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15251\/revisions\/15252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}