{"id":158309,"date":"2020-07-25T20:27:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T03:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=158309"},"modified":"2020-07-25T20:27:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T03:27:45","slug":"how-skateboarding-culture-can-help-fight-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=158309","title":{"rendered":"How Skateboarding Culture Can Help Fight Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 On a Friday afternoon, Charlie Harmony is practicing a few moves. He\u2019s been skateboarding since he was in high school and tries to get out to Venice Beach two to three times a week just for fun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never really fit in in high school and so once I played Tony Hawk Pro Skater, basically is when I felt like I belonged to something, felt accepted by something,&#8221; Harmony said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a diverse group of skaters at the Venice Skate Park and Harmony said he\u2019s always felt welcome in the skateboarding community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once you get into skateboarding and everyone\u2019s doing it, it just feels like everybody\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/ca\/la-west\/inside-the-issues\/2020\/07\/24\/how-skateboarding-culture-can-help-fight-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 On a Friday afternoon, Charlie Harmony is practicing a few moves. He\u2019s been skateboarding since he was in high school and tries to get out to Venice Beach two to three times a week just for fun. &#8220;I never really fit in in high school and so once I played Tony Hawk [&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-158309","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\/158309","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=158309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158310,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158309\/revisions\/158310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}