{"id":2685,"date":"2008-11-22T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T04:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2018-09-04T13:01:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T20:01:14","slug":"skateboarding-been-berry-berry-good-to-pharrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2685","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarding&#8217;s Been Very Good To Pharrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/pharrell460x276.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/pharrell460x276-tm.jpg\" alt=\"Pharrell460X276\" width=\"430\" height=\"258\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pharrell Williams<\/strong> is 35 years old and doesn&#8217;t have as much time to skate as he&#8217;d like, but <strong>Skateboard P<\/strong>. still sites skateboarding as his original influence, according to a story in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/2008\/nov\/23\/pharrell-williams-neptunes-sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first sport I got into &#8211; and the one that has had most impact on my life &#8211; is skateboarding. Most people think skateboarding is for some kid with blond hair from suburbia. But I remember when I was 12 or 13, growing up in Virginia Beach, everybody, black and white, was doing it. Skating taught me what it meant to be cool, to have credibility. I had it. I got so mad with it that I had a half-pipe put in my house. I had the look &#8211; the baggy jeans, the <strong>Vans<\/strong>. I still wear Vans shoes. I rap about skateboarding. My nickname is Skateboard P.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;d still wear Vans too if our company sold shoes that looked like Ice Cream&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/2008\/nov\/23\/pharrell-williams-neptunes-sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pharrell Williams is 35 years old and doesn&#8217;t have as much time to skate as he&#8217;d like, but Skateboard P. still sites skateboarding as his original influence, according to a story in the Guardian. The first sport I got into &#8211; and the one that has had most impact on my life &#8211; is skateboarding. [&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":[15,10,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685"}],"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=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53022,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions\/53022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}