{"id":43207,"date":"2011-01-19T07:43:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T14:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43207"},"modified":"2011-01-19T07:43:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T14:43:34","slug":"smithsonian-launches-skateboard-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43207","title":{"rendered":"Smithsonian launches skateboard collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With a vintage 1980s-era skateboard belonging to Tony Hawk, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has begun a collection of artifacts focusing on skateboarding and skate culture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Skateboarding is a sport that highlights the inventive and entrepreneurial spirit of our nation,&#8221; said Brent D. Glass, director of the Washington, D.C.-based museum. &#8220;Tony Hawk strongly embodies this spirit, and for this reason I am pleased that his deck launches our collecting initiative.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/action\/skateboarding\/news\/story?id=6033952\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a vintage 1980s-era skateboard belonging to Tony Hawk, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has begun a collection of artifacts focusing on skateboarding and skate culture. &#8220;Skateboarding is a sport that highlights the inventive and entrepreneurial spirit of our nation,&#8221; said Brent D. Glass, director of the Washington, D.C.-based museum. &#8220;Tony Hawk strongly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43207","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\/43207","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=43207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43209,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43207\/revisions\/43209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}