{"id":159460,"date":"2020-11-23T21:36:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T04:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=159460"},"modified":"2020-11-23T21:36:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T04:36:54","slug":"why-cities-are-finally-showing-skateboarders-some-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=159460","title":{"rendered":"Why Cities Are Finally Showing Skateboarders Some Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New York and Jersey City opened or upgraded several skate parks just as the pandemic put a premium on outdoor space.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">The first time Xavier Harris, 21, visited the new skate park in Jersey City, N.J., it was July, and the course was still being built. So he scaled a temporary fence to get inside. The second time, Mr. Harris, who started skateboarding when he was 9, crawled under a chain-link fence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Just after it officially opened in August, he rode his skateboard through\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/17\/nyregion\/nyc-skate-parks.html\" 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>New York and Jersey City opened or upgraded several skate parks just as the pandemic put a premium on outdoor space. The first time Xavier Harris, 21, visited the new skate park in Jersey City, N.J., it was July, and the course was still being built. So he scaled a temporary fence to get inside. [&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-159460","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\/159460","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=159460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159461,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159460\/revisions\/159461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}