{"id":43232,"date":"2011-01-19T22:45:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T05:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43232"},"modified":"2011-01-19T22:47:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T05:47:25","slug":"skateboarding-school-helps-to-empower-kids-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43232","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Skateboarding school helps to empower kids in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There aren&#8217;t many positive stories emanating from Afghanistan these days, but one uplifting and very unusual story is rising out of obscurity in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It involves a school that uses skateboarding, of all things, to help empower displaced youths by providing a common passion and a means through which to build relationships.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Skateistan, which was founded in the spring of 2007 and\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/blog\/23666\/skateboarding+school+helps+to+empower+kids+in+afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"title\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8216;Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul&#8217; trailer<\/span><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/11995883\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There aren&#8217;t many positive stories emanating from Afghanistan these days, but one uplifting and very unusual story is rising out of obscurity in Kabul. It involves a school that uses skateboarding, of all things, to help empower displaced youths by providing a common passion and a means through which to build relationships. Skateistan, which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43232","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\/43232","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=43232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43234,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43232\/revisions\/43234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}