{"id":1924,"date":"2008-09-23T03:42:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T10:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2008-09-23T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T20:00:56","slug":"americas-original-skateboard-mom-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1924","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Original Skateboard Mom Still Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/22-read-grandma7-large.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/22-read-grandma7-large.jpg','popup','width=295,height=420,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\/2008\/09\/22-read-grandma7-large-tm.jpg\" height=\"284\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"22 Read Grandma7 Large\" \/><\/a>We first ran into <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.galewebb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gale &#8220;America&#8217;s Sports Mom&#8221; Webb<\/a><\/strong> when she was doing her &#8220;Get high on life&#8221; sideshow sports demo tour with a handful of BMX and skaters. <\/p>\n<p>She was loud, kind of crazy on the mic, but always drew a crowd. Now the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/gale-old-kids-2166912-told-gramma\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County Register<\/a><\/strong> informs us that she is still alive and riding at 65.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Her right ankle bones are held together with a bunch of bolts and screws. She needs a new left knee. And the arthritis in her fingers gives her fits. . . . But her brain apparently doesn&#8217;t care, because pretty much every day it bleats the same mantra: Mo-to cross! Mo-to crosss. . . You go, gramma.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe this is her comeback. . . If we truly are replaying the 80s then Gale needs to get back out on the road to remind kids to &#8220;always wear their gear.&#8221; God, we can still her ringing in our ears. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/gale-old-kids-2166912-told-gramma\" target=\"_blank\">OC Register<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We first ran into Gale &#8220;America&#8217;s Sports Mom&#8221; Webb when she was doing her &#8220;Get high on life&#8221; sideshow sports demo tour with a handful of BMX and skaters. She was loud, kind of crazy on the mic, but always drew a crowd. Now the Orange County Register informs us that she is still alive [&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\/1924"}],"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=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}