{"id":11002,"date":"2009-10-05T09:09:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T16:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11002"},"modified":"2009-10-05T09:10:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T16:10:47","slug":"new-venice-skatepark-now-officially-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11002","title":{"rendered":"New Venice Skatepark Now Officially Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/49645302.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/49645302.jpg','popup','width=600,height=407,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/49645302-tm.jpg\" height=\"291\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"49645302\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-venice-skate-park4-2009oct04,0,42717.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (and many of our <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=venice+skatepark\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter friends<\/a><\/strong>) report that the Venice, California skateboard park is now officially open to the public.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The $3.4-million skate park was paid for by the sale of surplus city property in Venice and development fees, and did not draw from the general fund. It will be named after legendary Z-Boy skater Dennis &#8220;Polar Bear&#8221; Agnew, who died about five years ago, said Ger-I Lewis, the skate park coordinator and executive director of the Venice Surf and Skateboard Assn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For full photo gallery from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/reitergallery.smugmug.com\/Photo-Journalism\/Skate\/Venice-skatepark-day\/9852878_Da9Ma#670140453_SjUGA\" target=\"_blank\">Reiter Gallery click here<\/a><\/strong>. Looks like it&#8217;s going to be good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-venice-skate-park4-2009oct04,0,42717.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/reitergallery.smugmug.com\/Photo-Journalism\/Skate\/Venice-skatepark-day\/9852878_Da9Ma#670140453_SjUGA\" target=\"_blank\">Reiter Gallery<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Times (and many of our Twitter friends) report that the Venice, California skateboard park is now officially open to the public. The $3.4-million skate park was paid for by the sale of surplus city property in Venice and development fees, and did not draw from the general fund. It will be named after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11004,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002\/revisions\/11004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}