{"id":99056,"date":"2014-10-09T20:47:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T03:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=99056"},"modified":"2014-10-15T17:40:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T00:40:14","slug":"the-worlds-largest-illegal-skateboarding-race-faces-its-final-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=99056","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Largest (Illegal) Skateboarding Race Faces Its Final Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>The Broadway Bomb, a longboarding race that spans from 116th\u00a0St. down to the Charging Bull Statue in the Financial District, has transformed from an initial group of sixteen longboarders in 2002 to the largest skateboarding race in the world. If all goes smoothly, the nearly eight-mile race is set to happen this Saturday, October 11. Although, it is important to note that the race is, well, illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Without a permit for the anticipated 4,000 skateboarders, the race remains unsanctioned and cannot continue\u2013but, of course, it will try. The hype is growing and skateboarders are coming from\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/nyulocal.com\/city\/2014\/10\/09\/worlds-largest-illegal-skateboarding-race-faces-final-year\/\" 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>The Broadway Bomb, a longboarding race that spans from 116th\u00a0St. down to the Charging Bull Statue in the Financial District, has transformed from an initial group of sixteen longboarders in 2002 to the largest skateboarding race in the world. If all goes smoothly, the nearly eight-mile race is set to happen this Saturday, October 11. [&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-99056","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\/99056","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=99056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99272,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99056\/revisions\/99272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}