{"id":38156,"date":"2010-10-02T21:51:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T04:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=38156"},"modified":"2010-10-02T21:51:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T04:51:14","slug":"skateboard-fundraiser-eugene-boarder-hopes-his-record-attempt-will-help-fund-a-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=38156","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard Fundraiser &#8211; Eugene boarder hopes his record attempt will help fund a park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McKENZIE PASS \u00e2\u20ac\u201d There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Conan the Barbarian, Conan O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Brien and Arthur Conan Doyle.<\/p>\n<p>And now, when it comes to famous Conans, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Conan the Skateboarder. But the question is: Can he also become Conan the World Record Holder come 2:15 p.m. today?<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think I can,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Conan Gay said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been training for over a year for this.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>This is the 38-year-old Eugene man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attempt to ride his skateboard more than 242 miles \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the current world record \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in 24 hours. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more than that, Gay said. In fact, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mostly about getting more exposure for the city of Eugene\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s proposed skate park under the Washington-Jefferson Bridge, the ambitious almost-million-dollar vision known as Dreamland\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.registerguard.com\/csp\/cms\/sites\/web\/news\/cityregion\/25353362-41\/gay-record-conan-skate-park.csp\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McKENZIE PASS \u00e2\u20ac\u201d There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Conan the Barbarian, Conan O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Brien and Arthur Conan Doyle. And now, when it comes to famous Conans, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Conan the Skateboarder. But the question is: Can he also become Conan the World Record Holder come 2:15 p.m. today? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think I can,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Conan Gay said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been training for over a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,71,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-fundraiser-andor-volunteer","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38156","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=38156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38157,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38156\/revisions\/38157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}