{"id":81233,"date":"2013-07-06T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=81233"},"modified":"2013-07-06T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T17:45:09","slug":"man-to-skateboard-across-the-country-to-raise-money-for-the-alzheimers-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=81233","title":{"rendered":"Man to skateboard across the country to raise money for the Alzheimer\u2019s Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the 1960s, an Air Force medic named Jack Smith made skateboards for kids on his base. Now, a half century later, his son \u2013 also Jack Smith \u2013 is skateboarding across the country in his father\u2019s honor, raising money for the disease that devastated him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt was sad and difficult to watch,\u201d Smith, of Morro Bay, said about his father\u2019s battle with Alzheimer\u2019s. \u201cMy dad had a very sharp mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After ceremoniously leaving Morro Bay Thursday, Smith and four other skaters headed to Oregon\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanluisobispo.com\/2013\/07\/05\/2572641\/morro-bay-man-to-skateboard-across.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>In the 1960s, an Air Force medic named Jack Smith made skateboards for kids on his base. Now, a half century later, his son \u2013 also Jack Smith \u2013 is skateboarding across the country in his father\u2019s honor, raising money for the disease that devastated him. \u201cIt was sad and difficult to watch,\u201d Smith, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,71,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-fundraiser-andor-volunteer","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81233","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=81233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81235,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81233\/revisions\/81235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}