{"id":2318,"date":"2008-11-02T07:35:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T14:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2008-11-03T07:51:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T14:51:14","slug":"the-johnny-romano-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2318","title":{"rendered":"The Johnny Romano Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/260xstory.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/260xstory.jpg','popup','width=260,height=193,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\/11\/260xstory-tm.jpg\" height=\"148\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"260Xstory\" \/><\/a><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/metropolitan\/6090354.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Houston Chronicle&#8217;s<\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong> Lisa Gray<\/strong> recounts the sad and inspiring story of how <strong>Johnny Romano<\/strong>, the seven-year-old skateboarder with leukemia, turned pro and unselfishly donated his royalty checks to kids who were worse off than he.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Johnny donated his royalties to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and posed for photos with enormous cardboard checks for thousands of dollars. . . . He skated on Fuel TV. He donated <strong>Johnny Romano<\/strong> skateboards to charity and autographed them for fans. . . He liked being a <strong>Make-A-Wish<\/strong> benefactor, not a recipient. . . . But his luck didn&#8217;t hold. In May, with only 10 more chemo treatments on his schedule, he relapsed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Johnny died on September 23, 2008, but he will not soon be forgotten. The annual <strong>Texas Skate Jam For Make-A-Wish<\/strong> scheduled for November 8, 2008 at the Southside Skatepark in Houston has been renamed <strong>The Johnny Romano Skate Jam For Make-A-Wish<\/strong> and Johnny&#8217;s parents are starting a foundation to support research on childhood leukemia. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/metropolitan\/6090354.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chron.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Chronicle&#8217;s Lisa Gray recounts the sad and inspiring story of how Johnny Romano, the seven-year-old skateboarder with leukemia, turned pro and unselfishly donated his royalty checks to kids who were worse off than he. Johnny donated his royalties to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and posed for photos with enormous cardboard checks for thousands of [&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\/2318"}],"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=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}