{"id":55341,"date":"2011-10-15T08:11:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T15:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=55341"},"modified":"2011-10-15T08:11:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T15:11:43","slug":"skateboard-tony-hawk-builds-skate-parks-for-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=55341","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard &#8211; Tony Hawk Builds Skate Parks For Next Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tony Hawk is pretty busy these days. When he&#8217;s not acting in commercials or creating best-selling video games, he&#8217;s likely raising money to build more skateboard venues in hopes of keeping America&#8217;s youth out of trouble and in shape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In case you don&#8217;t know about Hawk, he&#8217;s widely considered the greatest competitive skateboarder of all time, winning nine gold medals at the Summer X Games. Nowadays the 43-year-old &#8220;Birdman&#8221; is retired. His main focus is the Tony Hawk Foundation, which has raised more than $3.2 million for nearly 500 public skate parks throughout the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;We&#8217;re giving them\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/10\/14\/tony-hawk-skateboard-parks_n_1009222.html\" 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>Tony Hawk is pretty busy these days. When he&#8217;s not acting in commercials or creating best-selling video games, he&#8217;s likely raising money to build more skateboard venues in hopes of keeping America&#8217;s youth out of trouble and in shape. In case you don&#8217;t know about Hawk, he&#8217;s widely considered the greatest competitive skateboarder of all [&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-55341","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\/55341","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=55341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55343,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55341\/revisions\/55343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}