{"id":3408,"date":"2009-03-12T13:53:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T21:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3408"},"modified":"2009-03-17T15:55:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T22:55:26","slug":"citys-unfair-skateboard-inline-skate-ban-should-be-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3408","title":{"rendered":"City&#8217;s unfair skateboard &#038; Inline Skate ban should be lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articleGraf\">Consider the double standard in this: If a city resident pedals into town on a bike, he or she is a carbon-footprint hero brimming with health and rewarded with bike paths, convenient racks, even an annual &#8220;bike to work&#8221; day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articleGraf\">But if a young adult ventures downtown on inline skates, or worse, a skateboard, this (albeit often slightly younger) self-propelled commuter is hauled over by the cops, his transportation may be seized and he or she faces a $50 fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articleGraf\">It is just plain silly to ban skateboarding and inline skating across the entire city&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seacoastonline.com\/articles\/20090312-OPINION-903120381\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider the double standard in this: If a city resident pedals into town on a bike, he or she is a carbon-footprint hero brimming with health and rewarded with bike paths, convenient racks, even an annual &#8220;bike to work&#8221; day. But if a young adult ventures downtown on inline skates, or worse, a skateboard, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,49,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skate-roller-inline-ice","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408","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=3408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4250,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions\/4250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}