{"id":95110,"date":"2014-06-11T21:03:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T04:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=95110"},"modified":"2014-06-11T21:03:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T04:03:16","slug":"man-pursues-dream-of-skateboarding-cross-country-after-losing-all-his-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=95110","title":{"rendered":"Man Pursues Dream of Skateboarding Cross-Country After Losing All His Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, Kevin Kreider was in New York City\u00a0living his dream as an actor and model for brands like Puma and Adidas. But after he came down with alopecia, an autoimmune disorder that caused him to lose his hair, he soon lost out on many of his modeling gigs. That&#8217;s when he decided to pursue a longtime dream of learning to skateboard and then heading cross-country on his new set of wheels, filming a documentary along the way. That documentary, &#8220;Kevin &amp; His Skateboard,&#8221; just scored over $6,000 of funding on IndieGogo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It isn&#8217;t going to cure cancer or solve world hunger or\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.shine.yahoo.com\/blogs\/healthy-living\/man-pursues-dream-of-skateboarding-cross-country-after-losing-all-his-hair-from-alopecia-161745764.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, Kevin Kreider was in New York City\u00a0living his dream as an actor and model for brands like Puma and Adidas. But after he came down with alopecia, an autoimmune disorder that caused him to lose his hair, he soon lost out on many of his modeling gigs. That&#8217;s when he decided to [&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-95110","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\/95110","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=95110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95112,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95110\/revisions\/95112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}