{"id":4860,"date":"2009-03-18T09:01:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T16:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=4860"},"modified":"2009-03-26T12:06:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T19:06:19","slug":"skateboard-around-the-world-in-850-days-on-a-skateboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=4860","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard &#8211; Around the world in 850 days &#8211; on a skateboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4861\" title=\"skate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/skate.bmp\" alt=\"skate\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of true adventure, a Christchurch man has skateboarded across continents fending off wild dogs with a pole, partying with fiddle-playing rednecks and eating horse-penis salami.<\/p>\n<p>Now, 28-year-old Rob Thomson has come home with a Guinness World Record and a taste for wheeled transport of\u00c2\u00a0the non-motorised type.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Thomson returned to Christchurch after a 2\u00c2\u00bd-year journey.<\/p>\n<p>By the time he arrived at his parents&#8217; Halswell home he had worn out three pairs of shoes, three sets &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/734436\/Around-the-world-in-850-days-on-a-skateboard\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/accounts\/default1\/banners\/dirtbagwr-468x60.jpg\" alt=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" title=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/scripts\/imp.php?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 In the spirit of true adventure, a Christchurch man has skateboarded across continents fending off wild dogs with a pole, partying with fiddle-playing rednecks and eating horse-penis salami. Now, 28-year-old Rob Thomson has come home with a Guinness World Record and a taste for wheeled transport of\u00c2\u00a0the non-motorised type. This week, Thomson returned to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4860","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\/4860","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=4860"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6058,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860\/revisions\/6058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}