{"id":16663,"date":"2010-07-07T10:40:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T17:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16663"},"modified":"2010-07-07T12:49:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T19:49:03","slug":"gsd-closes-memphis-diy-skatepark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16663","title":{"rendered":"GSD Closes Memphis DIY Skatepark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/7skate2_t607.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/7skate2_t607.jpeg','popup','width=607,height=405,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\/07\/7skate2_t607-tm.jpg\" height=\"286\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"7Skate2 T607\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Owners of the land that housed Memphis, Tennessee&#8217;s <strong>Al Town<\/strong> DIY skatepark who were worried about the large turn-out for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goskateboardingday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Go Skateboarding Day<\/a><\/strong> on June 21, 2010 decided instead to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skatelifememphis.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">shut the place down<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2010\/jul\/07\/not-03\/\" target=\"_blank\">Commercial Appeal<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But on June 21, you didn&#8217;t have to be a skateboarder to notice something special about Al Town: the &#8220;No Trespassing&#8221; signs and police cars that showed up just in time for international Go Skateboarding Day. . . Al Town had been shut down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The City of Memphis has money set aside for a skatepark, but as happens all over the world, they can&#8217;t seem to find the right place for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2010\/jul\/07\/not-03\/\" target=\"_blank\">Commercial Appeal<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skatelifememphis.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skate Life Memphis<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of the land that housed Memphis, Tennessee&#8217;s Al Town DIY skatepark who were worried about the large turn-out for Go Skateboarding Day on June 21, 2010 decided instead to shut the place down, according to a story in the Commercial Appeal. But on June 21, you didn&#8217;t have to be a skateboarder to notice [&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\/16663"}],"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=16663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16665,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions\/16665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}