{"id":2043,"date":"2008-10-06T11:54:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T18:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2008-10-06T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T19:01:08","slug":"guy-skateboards-across-three-continents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2043","title":{"rendered":"Guy Skateboards Across Three Continents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/762299.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/762299.jpg','popup','width=300,height=360,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\/10\/762299-tm.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"762299\" \/><\/a>Whenever we hear about things like someone skateboarding around the world, or across the country we always have the same question: who would actually do something like that?<\/p>\n<p>Then we see picture of the guy and usually it all makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>Take New Zealander <strong>Rob Thomson<\/strong> for example. He has &#8220;skateboarded&#8221; 12,000 kilometers across three continents in the past 462 days and from his photo he looks like just the kind of guy who would do something like that. Doesn&#8217;t he? Wooo hoooo! Yeeeooow! Uuuh Huuh! That&#8217;s right!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Asked why he had undertaken the journey, Thomson said: &#8220;I struggle with that question sometimes as well.&#8221;. . . But the main reason was that he had wanted to push himself. &#8220;I took a couple of years of my life to put myself outside of my comfort zone,&#8221; he told National Radio. &#8220;I&#8217;ll take something away from that in my life to come to just keep trying to learn, to keep making sure I push myself past my comfort zone and continue to learn.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That fact that he wasn&#8217;t doing it to raise money for charity makes it a little better, but come on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/stuff\/4717792a4560.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stuff.co.nz<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever we hear about things like someone skateboarding around the world, or across the country we always have the same question: who would actually do something like that? Then we see picture of the guy and usually it all makes sense. Take New Zealander Rob Thomson for example. He has &#8220;skateboarded&#8221; 12,000 kilometers across three [&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\/2043"}],"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=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}