{"id":7103,"date":"2009-04-02T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T17:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7103"},"modified":"2009-04-03T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T21:16:00","slug":"skateboard-skateboarders-of-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7103","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard &#8211; Skateboarders of Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7104\" title=\"skate-kabul\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/skate-kabul-150x90.jpg\" alt=\"skate-kabul\" width=\"150\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/skate-kabul-150x90.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/skate-kabul.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Since 2007, when three Australians brought &#8216;Skateistan&#8217; to the streets of Kabul, skateboarding has taken off among the city&#8217;s boys and girls, and raised enough money to build Afghanistan&#8217;s first skate park. Founder Oliver Percovich, 34, explains how the project encourages Afghan kids to build relationships that transcend nationality and class.<\/p>\n<p>At first, it felt strange to be skateboarding in places in Kabul where the Taliban were executing people not that long ago. But it&#8217;s fantastic to skate in these notorious places and to be able to have fun in them \u00e2\u20ac\u201c something that should be celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Australia, where I come from, people thought I was completely nuts&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardianweekly.co.uk\/?page=editorial&amp;id=1008&amp;catID=7\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/accounts\/default1\/banners\/dirtbagwr-468x60.jpg\" alt=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" title=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/scripts\/imp.php?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2007, when three Australians brought &#8216;Skateistan&#8217; to the streets of Kabul, skateboarding has taken off among the city&#8217;s boys and girls, and raised enough money to build Afghanistan&#8217;s first skate park. Founder Oliver Percovich, 34, explains how the project encourages Afghan kids to build relationships that transcend nationality and class. At first, it felt [&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-7103","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\/7103","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=7103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7313,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions\/7313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}