{"id":162421,"date":"2022-01-16T16:24:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T23:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=162421"},"modified":"2022-01-16T16:24:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T23:24:18","slug":"pensioner-insists-age-is-no-limit-after-taking-up-skateboarding-during-lockdown-aged-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=162421","title":{"rendered":"Pensioner insists &#8216;age is no limit&#8217; after taking up skateboarding during lockdown aged 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A grandfather-of-two who took up skateboarding aged 82 insists &#8220;age is no limit&#8221; \u2013 but has ruled out trying halfpipes.<\/p>\n<p>Don Morton took up his new hobby in September after previously being a passionate skier and rollerblader, which he took up when he was nearly 70-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>He taught rollerblading at Glasgow Caledonian University\u2019s (GCU) Arc Sport Hall and only gave it up last year because he felt too old to be\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/news\/uk-world-news\/pensioner-insists-age-no-limit-6479537\" 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>A grandfather-of-two who took up skateboarding aged 82 insists &#8220;age is no limit&#8221; \u2013 but has ruled out trying halfpipes. Don Morton took up his new hobby in September after previously being a passionate skier and rollerblader, which he took up when he was nearly 70-years-old. He taught rollerblading at Glasgow Caledonian University\u2019s (GCU) Arc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skateboard-mountain-board","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162421","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=162421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162422,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162421\/revisions\/162422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}