{"id":160822,"date":"2021-04-18T17:44:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T00:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=160822"},"modified":"2021-04-18T19:03:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T02:03:45","slug":"trekking-4000km-along-the-australian-coast-on-a-skateboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=160822","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard &#8211; Trekking 4,000km along the Australian coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been out driving on the eastern coast of Australia in the last few months, you might have seen Tom Drury. He would have been hard to miss, a 28-year-old with a droopy moustache and a backpack, cruising along by the side of the Bruce Highway. Cruising, on a skateboard.<\/p>\n<p>What you probably wouldn&#8217;t have known was that he was a long way from home, skating alone on an epic voyage of discovery that led him from Melbourne all the way north to Cairns, a 4,000-kilometer route on just four little wheels.<\/p>\n<p>When he set off in late 2020, Drury had no idea what would be possible\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/sports\/trekking-4-000km-along-the-australian-coast----on-a-skateboard\/article_568f172e-4ab8-5274-a214-28eaeca7d85d.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>If you&#8217;ve been out driving on the eastern coast of Australia in the last few months, you might have seen Tom Drury. He would have been hard to miss, a 28-year-old with a droopy moustache and a backpack, cruising along by the side of the Bruce Highway. Cruising, on a skateboard. What you probably wouldn&#8217;t [&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-160822","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\/160822","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=160822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160826,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160822\/revisions\/160826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}