{"id":54002,"date":"2011-09-05T11:27:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T18:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=54002"},"modified":"2011-09-05T11:27:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T18:27:48","slug":"after-leaving-the-drug-game-behind-darren-harper-found-new-life-in-skateboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=54002","title":{"rendered":"After leaving the drug game behind, Darren Harper found new life in skateboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The grand tour of Darren Harper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s old neighborhood in Southeast Washington is nearly complete. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the spot where he sold his first piece of crack at age 10, for five bucks. The sidewalk where he saw a man bleed to death from a gunshot wound to the neck. The house where his cousin shot his stepfather after the latter raised his hand to Darren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mother. The sidewalk where Darren, in his late teens, had a shootout with his partner over a deal gone bad. The corner where Darren, in a rare moment of carelessness, was nabbed by police and caught a cocaine distribution charge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The tour \u00e2\u20ac\u201d no charge, no tips, no air-conditioned bus, no stuffy history lessons \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is about to break up when Harper stops and says\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/after-leaving-the-drug-game-behind-darren-harper-found-new-life-in-skateboarding\/2011\/09\/02\/gIQAX4Ia2J_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures, video\u00c2\u00a0and 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>The grand tour of Darren Harper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s old neighborhood in Southeast Washington is nearly complete. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the spot where he sold his first piece of crack at age 10, for five bucks. The sidewalk where he saw a man bleed to death from a gunshot wound to the neck. The house where his cousin shot his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-misc","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54002","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=54002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54003,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54002\/revisions\/54003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}