{"id":12748,"date":"2009-12-29T10:37:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T18:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12748"},"modified":"2009-12-29T10:38:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T18:38:05","slug":"skateistan-opens-first-park-and-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12748","title":{"rendered":"Skateistan Opens First Park And School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/2388770.bin_.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/2388770.bin_.jpeg','popup','width=404,height=272,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\/12\/2388770.bin-tm.jpg\" height=\"134\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"2388770.Bin\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skateistan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skateistan<\/a><\/strong>, the organization that teaches Afghan young people through skateboarding has open its first skateboard park and school on Tuesday December 29, 2009, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/life\/story.html?id=2388767\" target=\"_blank\">The National Post<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Skateistan&#8221; started two years ago in a dried-up fountain in the heart of the Afghan capital, when two Australians with three skateboards started teaching a small group of fascinated kids. . . Now dozens of boys and girls from across all social classes can mix in a giant indoor park that looks like a cross between a military hangar and an urban hangout, festooned with the names of fashionable skating brands that have sponsored the park.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is amazing what can be done with some skateboards and a dream. For more on the story <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=skateistan\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/life\/story.html?id=2388767\" target=\"_blank\">National Post<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skateistan, the organization that teaches Afghan young people through skateboarding has open its first skateboard park and school on Tuesday December 29, 2009, according to a story in The National Post. &#8220;Skateistan&#8221; started two years ago in a dried-up fountain in the heart of the Afghan capital, when two Australians with three skateboards started teaching [&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\/12748"}],"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=12748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12749,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12748\/revisions\/12749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}