{"id":84505,"date":"2013-09-29T06:46:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T13:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=84505"},"modified":"2013-09-29T06:46:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T13:46:26","slug":"skateboards-took-surfers-out-of-the-water-into-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=84505","title":{"rendered":"Skateboards took surfers out of the water, into the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Florida &#8211; Recently, about midnight, a pair of skateboarders rolled\u00a0 quietly past my house, talking softly as they went south. My jealousy has waned\u00a0 over the years, but it reminded me of just how fortunate they are to live in the\u00a0 era of urethane skateboard wheels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the mid-1960s, we adopted California\u2019s new skateboard\u00a0 culture for the same reasons it took off there. It was fun and helped fill the\u00a0 time during spells of flat surf. Commercial skateboards were slow to make it\u00a0 here, so we made our own. Pawn shops often had\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jacksonville.com\/community\/shorelines\/2013-09-28\/story\/wavelengths-skateboards-took-surfers-out-water-world\" 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>Florida &#8211; Recently, about midnight, a pair of skateboarders rolled\u00a0 quietly past my house, talking softly as they went south. My jealousy has waned\u00a0 over the years, but it reminded me of just how fortunate they are to live in the\u00a0 era of urethane skateboard wheels. In the mid-1960s, we adopted California\u2019s new skateboard\u00a0 culture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skateboard-mountain-board","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84505","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=84505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84506,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84505\/revisions\/84506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}