{"id":1928,"date":"2008-09-23T12:51:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T19:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2008-09-23T12:51:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T19:51:19","slug":"its-the-new-bouncy-bounce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s The New Bouncy Bounce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/longbow4.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/longbow4.jpg','popup','width=300,height=200,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\/longbow4-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Longbow4\" \/><\/a><strong>Stephen Sprong<\/strong>, 23, an inventor from the UK who is competing in a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiat.co.uk\/smiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smiles Per Hour<\/a><\/strong> design competition run by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiat.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fiat<\/a><\/strong>, has developed a new skateboard that is powered by &#8220;the rider jumping up and down on the board,&#8221; according to a story in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.echo-news.co.uk\/news\/3694498.Steven_s_skateboard_design_is_smiles_better\/\" target=\"_blank\">Echo News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The competition to discover Britain&#8217;s budding inventors ran this summer and was based on the design brief of making travelling more fun. . . &#8220;It&#8217;s an entirely new and exciting transport of leisure board and on flat ground it allows the rider to propel themselves forward by pumping,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly there is no video of the sprongboard in action..<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiat.co.uk\/Community\/blogs\/smiles\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Smiles Per Hour<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.echo-news.co.uk\/news\/3694498.Steven_s_skateboard_design_is_smiles_better\/\" target=\"_blank\">Echo<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Sprong, 23, an inventor from the UK who is competing in a Smiles Per Hour design competition run by Fiat, has developed a new skateboard that is powered by &#8220;the rider jumping up and down on the board,&#8221; according to a story in Echo News. The competition to discover Britain&#8217;s budding inventors ran this [&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\/1928"}],"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=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}