{"id":24493,"date":"2009-12-01T10:40:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T17:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=24493"},"modified":"2009-12-01T10:40:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T17:40:41","slug":"skateboard-video-barging-the-embargo-in-havana-1-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=24493","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard Video &#8211; Barging the Embargo in Havana #1 of 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">Chris Nieratko and 15 skaters sneak into Havana, Cuba with the sole intention of bringing skateboards to the children of the forbidden island. They basically barged the embargo with over 200 skateboards, 100 pairs of shoes and more skate product than most skate shops. Until that point Cuban skaters could not get new skateboards, so what was seen were war-torn, weather-beaten, flat spotted wheels, cracked trucks and long since dead boards held together by nails and reinforced with 2\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3\u00c3\u20144\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3s. Their only chance for a new deck was a miracle and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exactly what they got when our selfless crew, led by Vice\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own staff writer, Chris Nieratko, showed up at their local skate park and handed out new boards for everyone <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.vbs.tv\/vbs_player.js?width=498&amp;height=336&amp;ec=F1b3UwMToZLvyzjSC1uVTEsLGF2RKLix&amp;st=FROM%20THE%20PAGES%20OF%20VICE&amp;pl=http:\/\/www.vbs.tv\/watch\/from-the-pages-of-vice\/viva-skate-1-of-2\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Nieratko and 15 skaters sneak into Havana, Cuba with the sole intention of bringing skateboards to the children of the forbidden island. They basically barged the embargo with over 200 skateboards, 100 pairs of shoes and more skate product than most skate shops. Until that point Cuban skaters could not get new skateboards, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24493","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\/24493","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=24493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24496,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24493\/revisions\/24496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}