{"id":161303,"date":"2021-07-05T14:39:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T21:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=161303"},"modified":"2021-07-05T14:41:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T21:41:18","slug":"skateboard-phenom-nyjah-huston-a-rising-olympic-star-blends-in-on-socal-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=161303","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard phenom Nyjah Huston, a rising Olympic star, blends in on SoCal streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the police show up \u2014 which they sometimes do \u2014 Nyjah Huston probably looks like any other skateboarder, hanging with friends, grinding rails in the park, doing kickflips off the stairs in front of a library.<\/p>\n<p>His trim build and thin goatee are not so imposing. Maybe the tattoos covering his entire body, creeping up his neck almost to his face, make him seem tougher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCops will sit us down on the curb,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve never actually been arrested but they\u2019ve put me in handcuffs multiple times &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/olympics\/story\/2021-06-28\/skateboard-phenom-nyjah-huston-a-rising-olympic-star-blends-in-on-socal-streets\" 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>When the police show up \u2014 which they sometimes do \u2014 Nyjah Huston probably looks like any other skateboarder, hanging with friends, grinding rails in the park, doing kickflips off the stairs in front of a library. His trim build and thin goatee are not so imposing. Maybe the tattoos covering his entire body, creeping [&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-161303","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\/161303","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=161303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161306,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161303\/revisions\/161306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}