{"id":16237,"date":"2010-06-09T10:24:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T17:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16237"},"modified":"2010-06-09T10:24:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T17:24:26","slug":"stanton-delawares-pink-spot-gets-dozed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16237","title":{"rendered":"Stanton Delaware&#8217;s Pink Spot Gets Dozed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/pinkspot.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/pinkspot.jpg','popup','width=550,height=329,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\/2010\/06\/pinkspot-tm.jpg\" height=\"119\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Pinkspot\" \/><\/a><strong>Pink Spot<\/strong>, a skateboard park built over the past four months on an abandoned supermarket site in Stanton, Delaware, was bulldozed by city crews on Tuesday June 8, 2010 after a teenage skateboarder was injured at the site according to a story in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/article\/20100609\/NEWS02\/6090329\" target=\"_blank\">Delaware Online<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The park was a liability to the state, Delaware Department of Transportation Manager of North District Operations <strong>Bill Thatcher<\/strong> said, noting officials were alerted to the problem about two weeks ago after a teenage skateboarder injured his leg at the site. . . &#8220;It&#8217;s state property. The accident happened, the child was hurt, police were called and something had to be done,&#8221; Thatcher said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We continue to be astounded by the lack of thought used by most city governments. If kids are skating there turn it into a skatepark. Is it that hard to figure out?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/article\/20100609\/NEWS02\/6090329\" target=\"_blank\">Delaware Online<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Spot, a skateboard park built over the past four months on an abandoned supermarket site in Stanton, Delaware, was bulldozed by city crews on Tuesday June 8, 2010 after a teenage skateboarder was injured at the site according to a story in Delaware Online. The park was a liability to the state, Delaware Department [&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\/16237"}],"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=16237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16238,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16237\/revisions\/16238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}