{"id":50430,"date":"2011-06-10T06:50:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T13:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50430"},"modified":"2011-06-10T06:50:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T13:50:44","slug":"history-of-skateboard-competitions-1960s-to-1980s-a-brief-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50430","title":{"rendered":"History of skateboard competitions 1960s to 1980s: A brief overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_3_0_1_130771252579523\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Whether you love them or hate them, skateboarding competitions have been around for decades. In the beginning the competitions weren&#8217;t always well attended, heavily televised or had such high prize purses as their more modern day counterparts. They were, however, an integral part of the skateboarding culture. Let&#8217;s take a brief look back at how it all began.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1960s<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It is generally accepted that the first sponsored skateboarding competition was held in\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/top\/news?slug=ycn-8612409\" 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>Whether you love them or hate them, skateboarding competitions have been around for decades. In the beginning the competitions weren&#8217;t always well attended, heavily televised or had such high prize purses as their more modern day counterparts. They were, however, an integral part of the skateboarding culture. Let&#8217;s take a brief look back at how [&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-50430","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\/50430","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=50430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50432,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50430\/revisions\/50432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}