{"id":8305,"date":"2009-04-09T09:21:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T16:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8305"},"modified":"2009-04-09T09:25:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T16:25:03","slug":"skateboard-no-pads-no-problem-as-long-as-youre-wearing-a-helmet-in-calif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8305","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard &#8211; No pads? No problem. As long as you&#8217;re wearing a helmet in Calif?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SACRAMENTO &#8211; No pads? No problem. As long as you&#8217;re wearing a helmet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That&#8217;s the goal of Assemblywoman Lori Saldana, D-San Diego, who has introduced legislation to allow thrashers access to public skateboard parks even if they don&#8217;t have elbow and knee pads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Turning away those who don&#8217;t don the safety equipmentment will just encourage rogue riding in the streets, risking more serious injuries, is Saldana&#8217;s point.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The measure, Assembly Bill 874, has a fan in Mark Takahashi, a San Diego attorney well-known in the area for his efforts on behalf of riders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Time and again the state&#8217;s pad requirement is enforced and skaters turned &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.signonsandiego.com\/news\/breaking\/2009\/04\/thrasher_saldana.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO &#8211; No pads? No problem. As long as you&#8217;re wearing a helmet. That&#8217;s the goal of Assemblywoman Lori Saldana, D-San Diego, who has introduced legislation to allow thrashers access to public skateboard parks even if they don&#8217;t have elbow and knee pads. Turning away those who don&#8217;t don the safety equipmentment will just encourage [&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-8305","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\/8305","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=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8310,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions\/8310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}