{"id":1640,"date":"2009-02-18T14:22:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T22:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2009-03-17T20:04:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:04:42","slug":"girls-can-shred-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard &#8211; Girls Can Shred, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1641\" title=\"nancychang2b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/nancychang2b.jpg\" alt=\"nancychang2b\" width=\"407\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/nancychang2b.jpg 407w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/nancychang2b-150x110.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She likes skate boarding, or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153shralping\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as they call it, and she enjoys working with young people. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as simple as that. But, when word got around about the incredible work Nancy Chang is doing to inspire young girls in her community, she suddenly found herself on a plane bound for New York to be recognized as a 2008 L\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Oreal Paris\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Woman of Worth.<\/p>\n<p>Chang was recognized for her volunteer work with Skate Like a Girl (SLAG), a Seattle organization whose mission is to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153empower young girls and women to grow into strong, confident leaders who promote and implement social equity.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 A University of Washington graduate with a degree in sculpture&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/colorsnw.com\/colors\/2009\/02\/18\/girls-can-shred-too\/\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She likes skate boarding, or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153shralping\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as they call it, and she enjoys working with young people. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as simple as that. But, when word got around about the incredible work Nancy Chang is doing to inspire young girls in her community, she suddenly found herself on a plane bound for New York to be [&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-1640","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\/1640","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=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4597,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/4597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}