{"id":11249,"date":"2009-10-29T10:38:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T17:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11249"},"modified":"2009-10-29T10:37:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T17:37:33","slug":"steve-brooker-loves-that-dirty-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11249","title":{"rendered":"Steve Brooker Loves That Dirty Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/a_brpostcard_1012.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/a_brpostcard_1012.jpg','popup','width=525,height=294,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\/a_brpostcard_1012-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"A Brpostcard 1012\" \/><\/a>Former Brighton UK pro skateboarder <strong>Steve Brooker<\/strong>, 48, spends a lot of his time these days down on the muddy banks of the Thames River, but he&#8217;s not homeless, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1927261,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Time Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brooker. . . is a member of the Mudlarks, a society of amateur archaeologists who are licensed by the Port of London Authority to scavenge the banks of the Thames for historical artifacts. Because of Brooker&#8217;s oversize frame, his talent for major discoveries and his overall awesomeness, he is known by admirers as the Mud God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, Steve just loves getting down and dirty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1927261,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Time.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Brighton UK pro skateboarder Steve Brooker, 48, spends a lot of his time these days down on the muddy banks of the Thames River, but he&#8217;s not homeless, according to a story in Time Magazine. Brooker. . . is a member of the Mudlarks, a society of amateur archaeologists who are licensed by the [&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\/11249"}],"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=11249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11250,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions\/11250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}