{"id":2374,"date":"2008-11-06T10:29:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T17:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2008-11-06T10:29:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T17:29:39","slug":"skateboard-makes-toy-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2374","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard Makes Toy Hall Of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/skateboard.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/skateboard.jpg','popup','width=410,height=274,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\/skateboard-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Skateboard\" \/><\/a>Don&#8217;t really know how to take this one. On the one hand the skateboard is obviously not a &#8220;toy,&#8221; yet, it seems if the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strongmuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Strong National Museum of Play<\/a><\/strong> is handing out honors for stuff kids use, the skateboard should have been inducted years ago. This year it&#8217;s in with the &#8220;baby doll&#8221; and &#8220;the stick.&#8221; The stick? Wow.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The three toys beat out the board games <strong>Clue<\/strong>, <strong>Yahtzee<\/strong> and the <strong>Game of Life<\/strong>, the dollhouse, the <strong>Flexible Flyer<\/strong> sled, <strong>Hot Wheels<\/strong>, <strong>Magic 8 Ball<\/strong>, <strong>Rubik&#8217;s Cube<\/strong>, T<strong>homas the Tank Engine<\/strong> and the whiffle ball.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guess that makes it all okay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/article\/20081106\/LIVING\/81106007\/1032\" target=\"_blank\">Democrat and Chronicle<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t really know how to take this one. On the one hand the skateboard is obviously not a &#8220;toy,&#8221; yet, it seems if the Strong National Museum of Play is handing out honors for stuff kids use, the skateboard should have been inducted years ago. This year it&#8217;s in with the &#8220;baby doll&#8221; and &#8220;the [&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\/2374"}],"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=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}