{"id":20723,"date":"2011-01-05T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T20:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=20723"},"modified":"2011-01-09T09:10:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T17:10:54","slug":"skateboard-diplomacy-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=20723","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard Diplomacy In Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"416\" height=\"374\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" id=\"ep\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed_edition&#038;videoId=world\/2011\/01\/05\/oppmann.us.cuba.skating.cnn\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed_edition&#038;videoId=world\/2011\/01\/05\/oppmann.us.cuba.skating.cnn\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"416\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"374\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Miami skate shop owner <strong>Rene Lecour<\/strong> wanted to take his son to a cool destination and they began researching Cuba. After seeing footage of some of the skateboards the Cuban&#8217;s were riding Lecour realized they could seriously help the skate scene there by taking some skateboards with them when they went to visit, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/WORLD\/americas\/01\/05\/cuba.skateboarding\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lecour . . . thought his contacts in the skating community would make it easy for him to bring boards to Cuba. He was wrong. . . &#8220;I e-mailed every single skateboard company I know,&#8221; Lecour said. &#8220;The only two responses I got were unfortunately one person who said we shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to go because of the embargo. Another &#8216;genius&#8217; said we shouldn&#8217;t come because all the skaters are all communist.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thankfully, the Miami skateboard community came through where the industry had failed and Lecour was able to hand deliver skateboards to the kids of Cuba.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/WORLD\/americas\/01\/05\/cuba.skateboarding\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami skate shop owner Rene Lecour wanted to take his son to a cool destination and they began researching Cuba. After seeing footage of some of the skateboards the Cuban&#8217;s were riding Lecour realized they could seriously help the skate scene there by taking some skateboards with them when they went to visit, according to [&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":[3,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20723"}],"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=20723"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20820,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20723\/revisions\/20820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}