{"id":1387,"date":"2008-08-14T09:50:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T16:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2008-08-14T09:52:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T16:52:30","slug":"skatepark-officially-named-kowabunga-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1387","title":{"rendered":"Skatepark Officially Named “Kowabunga, Dude”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re hoping the skaters of Perham, Minnesota are just playing some punk rock jokes on their city council because if they are it’s hilarious. After holding a contest to name their new park it came down to their two favorites: “Oompa Loompa Factory” and “Kowabunga, Dude.”<\/p>\n

Following a ten-minute discussion the name “Kowabunga, Dude” was chosen and skateboarder Brendan Lauer<\/strong> won a “certificate for a free t-shirt.”<\/p>\n

“Atrocious” and “horrible” were the reactions to the name “Kowabunga” by Councilmember Harriet Mattfeld<\/strong>. . . “In the long run, I think they’re going to be sorry they named it that,” said Mattfeld at the August 11 Perham City Council meeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This may be the one time we’re going to have to agree with a City Council regarding a skateboard park.<\/p>\n

[Link: <\/strong>Perham Enterprise Bulletin<\/a><\/strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re hoping the skaters of Perham, Minnesota are just playing some punk rock jokes on their city council because if they are it’s hilarious. After holding a contest to name their new park it came down to their two favorites: “Oompa Loompa Factory” and “Kowabunga, Dude.” Following a ten-minute discussion the name “Kowabunga, Dude” was […]<\/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\/1387"}],"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=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}