{"id":17973,"date":"2009-08-06T13:55:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T20:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17973"},"modified":"2011-03-20T16:38:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T23:38:21","slug":"skateboarding-skateboarding-champion-helps-inner-city-youngsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17973","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarding &#8211; Skateboarding Champion Helps Inner City Youngsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Skateboarder Tony Hawk was at the top of his sport in the 1990s. Today, he is an entrepreneur. He is retired from competition and involved in industries from video games to skateboards and apparel. VOA highlight Hawk&#8217;s efforts in this week&#8217;s Making a Difference as he works with young skateboarders in America&#8217;s cities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tony Hawk has won more than 70 professional skateboarding championships and built a fan base of millions of young admirers.<\/p>\n<p>Through the Tony Hawk Foundation, he has &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/2009-08-05-voa34.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skateboarder Tony Hawk was at the top of his sport in the 1990s. Today, he is an entrepreneur. He is retired from competition and involved in industries from video games to skateboards and apparel. VOA highlight Hawk&#8217;s efforts in this week&#8217;s Making a Difference as he works with young skateboarders in America&#8217;s cities. Tony Hawk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17973","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\/17973","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=17973"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46503,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17973\/revisions\/46503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}