{"id":4856,"date":"2009-03-18T08:56:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T15:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=4856"},"modified":"2009-03-18T08:56:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T15:56:53","slug":"skateboard-bmx-joy-for-skateboard-youngsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=4856","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard BMX &#8211; Joy for skateboard youngsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"a-teaser\">Shepton Mallet&#8217;s young people have won their battle for improved facilities at the town&#8217;s skatepark thanks to their perseverance and community support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-teaser\">Youngsters who regularly use the skatepark at the West Shepton Playing Fields have been battling for more than a year for extra facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-teaser\">Encouraged by youth workers Simon Howell and Karen Reeve and resident Will Dunscombe the young BMX enthusiasts and skaters spoke out at a Partners and Community Together (PACT) meeting in the town last year and argued their case.<\/p>\n<p>The BMX\/Skating Steering Group was formed, with support from the police. &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisissomerset.co.uk\/news\/Joy-skateboard-youngsters\/article-776770-detail\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shepton Mallet&#8217;s young people have won their battle for improved facilities at the town&#8217;s skatepark thanks to their perseverance and community support. Youngsters who regularly use the skatepark at the West Shepton Playing Fields have been battling for more than a year for extra facilities. Encouraged by youth workers Simon Howell and Karen Reeve and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,5,6,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-board-sports","category-cycling","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856","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=4856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4857,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions\/4857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}