{"id":25023,"date":"2011-08-26T17:18:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T00:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25023"},"modified":"2011-08-26T17:18:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T00:18:05","slug":"caltrans-destroys-the-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25023","title":{"rendered":"Caltrans Destroys The Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"otvPlayer\" width=\"450\" height=\"240\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/cdn.abclocal.go.com\/static\/flash\/embeddedPlayer\/swf\/otvEmLoader.swf?version=&#038;station=kgo&#038;section=&#038;mediaId=8326638&#038;cdnRoot=http:\/\/cdn.abclocal.go.com&#038;webRoot=http:\/\/abclocal.go.com&#038;configPath=\/util\/&#038;site=\" ><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed id=\"otvPlayer\" width=\"450\" height=\"240\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"\tallowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\tsrc=\"http:\/\/cdn.abclocal.go.com\/static\/flash\/embeddedPlayer\/swf\/otvEmLoader.swf?version=&#038;station=kgo&#038;section=&#038;mediaId=8326638&#038;cdnRoot=http:\/\/cdn.abclocal.go.com&#038;webRoot=http:\/\/abclocal.go.com&#038;configPath=\/util\/&#038;site=\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Oakland and Emeryville skaters like <strong>Alex Fatemi<\/strong> saw all their work at <strong>The Spot <\/strong>destroyed as Caltrans brought in the bulldozers and removed their DIY skatepark citing the usual &#8220;liability issues,&#8221; according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/kgo\/story?section=news\/local\/east_bay&amp;id=8326264\" target=\"_blank\">KGO<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There had been hope of leaving the spot open and perhaps working out a deal with Caltrans. But skateboarders say, with redevelopment agencies on the way out and the economy what it is, officials in Oakland and Emeryville were unable to come up with the money for the $5,000 per month lease that Caltrans wanted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So another DIY park will revert to it&#8217;s previous life as a place for trash (both human and garbage) to pile up, and the skateboarders will be back out in the streets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/kgo\/story?section=news\/local\/east_bay&amp;id=8326264\" target=\"_blank\">KGO<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland and Emeryville skaters like Alex Fatemi saw all their work at The Spot destroyed as Caltrans brought in the bulldozers and removed their DIY skatepark citing the usual &#8220;liability issues,&#8221; according to a story on KGO. There had been hope of leaving the spot open and perhaps working out a deal with Caltrans. But [&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\/25023"}],"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=25023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25024,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25023\/revisions\/25024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}