{"id":53746,"date":"2011-08-28T08:55:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T15:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53746"},"modified":"2011-08-28T08:55:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T15:55:23","slug":"skateboard-gnarly-moves-and-nonstop-adrenaline-rob-dyrdek-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53746","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard &#8211; Gnarly Moves and Nonstop Adrenaline &#8211; Rob Dyrdek interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was not the need for speed or the opportunity to impress girls that initially drew Rob Dyrdek to skateboarding. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I idolized my sister\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s boyfriend,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dyrdek said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He wore four bandanas on each arm and each leg, and a spiked belt across his chest and waist. He was the sickest dude ever, and I was like, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIf he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a skater, I gotta be a skater.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Dyrdek, now 37, began skating at 11, turned professional at 16 and quickly established himself as one of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top street skaters. More recently, Dyrdek became\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/28\/sports\/Interview-With-Skateboarder-Rob-Dyrdek.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was not the need for speed or the opportunity to impress girls that initially drew Rob Dyrdek to skateboarding. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I idolized my sister\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s boyfriend,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dyrdek said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He wore four bandanas on each arm and each leg, and a spiked belt across his chest and waist. He was the sickest dude ever, and I 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53746","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\/53746","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=53746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53747,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53746\/revisions\/53747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}