{"id":81865,"date":"2013-08-10T08:31:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=81865"},"modified":"2013-08-10T08:31:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T15:31:16","slug":"skateboard-subculture-thrives-in-havana-where-replacing-a-broken-board-is-a-constant-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=81865","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard subculture thrives in Havana, where replacing a broken board is a constant concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">HAVANA \u2014 Some call Che Pando the godfather of Havana\u2019s skateboarding scene, and the 40-year-old tattoo artist can still recall how tough things were in the 1980s when he and a handful of other pioneers first started shredding in public squares.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Like listening to rock music in the 1960s, interest in such a uniquely American import marked the young skaters as socially suspicious, and sometimes for rough treatment by police and arrest, though their experiences were\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/skateboard-subculture-thrives-in-havana-where-replacing-a-broken-board-is-a-constant-concern\/2013\/08\/06\/bda1e29a-febd-11e2-8294-0ee5075b840d_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAVANA \u2014 Some call Che Pando the godfather of Havana\u2019s skateboarding scene, and the 40-year-old tattoo artist can still recall how tough things were in the 1980s when he and a handful of other pioneers first started shredding in public squares. Like listening to rock music in the 1960s, interest in such a uniquely American [&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-81865","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\/81865","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=81865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81866,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81865\/revisions\/81866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}