{"id":267,"date":"2008-01-26T14:28:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T22:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2008-01-26T14:28:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T22:28:53","slug":"olympic-skateboarding-discussed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Skateboarding Discussed Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/435446478-t600.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/435446478-t600.jpg','popup','width=512,height=325,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\/01\/435446478-t600-tm.jpg\" height=\"126\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"435446478 T600\" \/><\/a>The <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2008\/jan\/24\/iocs-view-on-skateboarding-jumping-off-point-for\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky Mountain News<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is reporting that skateboarding could make it&#8217;s Olympic debut in 2016:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recent indications suggest 2016 is more likely for skateboarding to make its Olympic debut, but the crux of the issue remains the same: Should skateboarding be thrust into the spotlight the Olympics would offer?<\/p>\n<p>When the subject first was broached, some believed the sport that had stayed underground for so long finally was getting its due props.<\/p>\n<p>Many skateboarders, though, especially of the old-school variety, don&#8217;t see it that way despite support for the Olympics plan from legend Tony Hawk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow the link for the rest of the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2008\/jan\/24\/iocs-view-on-skateboarding-jumping-off-point-for\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky Mountain News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rocky Mountain News is reporting that skateboarding could make it&#8217;s Olympic debut in 2016: Recent indications suggest 2016 is more likely for skateboarding to make its Olympic debut, but the crux of the issue remains the same: Should skateboarding be thrust into the spotlight the Olympics would offer? When the subject first was broached, [&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\/267"}],"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=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}