{"id":2324,"date":"2008-11-02T08:04:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T15:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2008-11-03T08:12:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T15:12:18","slug":"skateboarding-goes-back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2324","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarding Goes Back To School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/02skate01-600.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/02skate01-600.jpg','popup','width=600,height=320,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\/02skate01-600-tm.jpg\" height=\"229\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"02Skate01-600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Usually skateboarding at school ends in tickets or running from the cops. At New York City&#8217;s <strong>East Side Community High School<\/strong> it can result in one more A on the transcript thanks to their skateboarding physical education elective.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What started in February as an after-school program run by a volunteer has turned into what school officials believe is New York City\u2019s only skateboarding class for credit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s odd how simple doing the right thing can be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/02\/nyregion\/02skate.html?_r=1&amp;em&amp;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually skateboarding at school ends in tickets or running from the cops. At New York City&#8217;s East Side Community High School it can result in one more A on the transcript thanks to their skateboarding physical education elective. What started in February as an after-school program run by a volunteer has turned into what school [&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\/2324"}],"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=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}