{"id":71065,"date":"2012-10-15T06:38:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T13:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=71065"},"modified":"2012-10-15T06:38:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T13:38:18","slug":"at-13-hes-already-a-skateboard-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=71065","title":{"rendered":"At 13, he&#8217;s already a skateboard legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There&#8217;s an old pool in River Edge that looks like it hasn&#8217;t held water in a decade, and kids in the area like it that way. On some afternoons, skateboarders sneak in to work on their tricks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thirteen-year-old skateboarder Tom Schaar, who achieved the sport&#8217;s first &#8216;1080,&#8217; practicing in an empty swimming pool in River Edge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;You can come here and it&#8217;s kind of hidden, so you don&#8217;t get hassled,&#8221; said 11-year-old Greg Cheng.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But the spot isn&#8217;t so secret anymore. Not since 13-year-old Californian Tom Schaar stopped by recently. Tom is the only skateboarder in the world to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/recreation\/174136951_At_13__he_s_already_a_skateboard_legend.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>There&#8217;s an old pool in River Edge that looks like it hasn&#8217;t held water in a decade, and kids in the area like it that way. On some afternoons, skateboarders sneak in to work on their tricks. Thirteen-year-old skateboarder Tom Schaar, who achieved the sport&#8217;s first &#8216;1080,&#8217; practicing in an empty swimming pool in River [&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-71065","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\/71065","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=71065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71066,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71065\/revisions\/71066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}