{"id":25235,"date":"2009-12-12T10:45:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T17:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=25235"},"modified":"2009-12-12T11:02:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T18:02:47","slug":"skateboarding-video-black-skateboarding-surges-in-the-sports-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=25235","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarding Video &#8211; Black skateboarding surges in the sport&#8217;s next generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout our country&#8217;s history, African-Americans have broken down barriers in many sports. As skateboarding began in Southern California in the late 1970s, however, very few African-Americans were part of the original movement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I started, there wasn&#8217;t really that many black people skating,&#8221; said Jay.<\/p>\n<p>While stars like Tiger Woods and the Williams sisters have established African-Americans&#8217; presence in golf and tennis, they haven&#8217;t brought notable changes in these sports&#8217; popularity in the black community. In contrast, African-Americans are participating in skateboarding on both a recreational and a professional level\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegrio.com\/2009\/12\/black-skateboarding-surges-in-the-sports-next-generation.php\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"400\" data=\"http:\/\/wgtclsp.nbcuni.com\/o\/4a784acd2b1a7e80\/4b23d6944092f3fb\/4a784acd2b1a7e80\/495b41bc\/-cpid\/a2b8c44bc98b3e81\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"W4a784acd2b1a7e804b23d6944092f3fb\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/wgtclsp.nbcuni.com\/o\/4a784acd2b1a7e80\/4b23d6944092f3fb\/4a784acd2b1a7e80\/495b41bc\/-cpid\/a2b8c44bc98b3e81\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout our country&#8217;s history, African-Americans have broken down barriers in many sports. As skateboarding began in Southern California in the late 1970s, however, very few African-Americans were part of the original movement. &#8220;When I started, there wasn&#8217;t really that many black people skating,&#8221; said Jay. While stars like Tiger Woods and the Williams sisters have [&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-25235","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\/25235","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=25235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25253,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25235\/revisions\/25253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}