{"id":48789,"date":"2011-05-05T06:55:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T13:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=48789"},"modified":"2011-05-05T06:55:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T13:55:42","slug":"skateboard-league-opens-2011-with-espn-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=48789","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard league opens 2011 with ESPN coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This weekend the first stop of the 2011 Street League Skateboarding DC Pro Tour Fueled by Monster Energy arrives at Key Arena in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Created last year by MTV personality, former pro skateboarder and entrepreneur Rob Dyrdek, Street League has tried to cast skateboarding as a compelling, drama-filled competition that can appeal to a mass audience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Changes to this year&#8217;s tour include an increase in prize money to $1.6 million\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/action\/2011-05-04-street-league-skateboard-tour_N.htm\" 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>This weekend the first stop of the 2011 Street League Skateboarding DC Pro Tour Fueled by Monster Energy arrives at Key Arena in Seattle. Created last year by MTV personality, former pro skateboarder and entrepreneur Rob Dyrdek, Street League has tried to cast skateboarding as a compelling, drama-filled competition that can appeal to a mass [&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-48789","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\/48789","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=48789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48790,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48789\/revisions\/48790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}