{"id":30495,"date":"2012-05-07T09:58:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30495"},"modified":"2012-05-07T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T17:23:28","slug":"lee-ralph-skateboardings-caveman-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30495","title":{"rendered":"Lee Ralph: Skateboarding&#8217;s Caveman Poet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/6866961_600x400.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/6866961_600x400.jpg','popup','width=592,height=400,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\/2012\/05\/6866961_600x400-tm.jpg\" height=\"290\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"6866961 600X400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/sport\/other-sports\/6866985\/Lee-Ralph-the-caveman-poet-of-skateboarding\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stuff.co.nz<\/a><\/strong> has a great catching-up profile on skate legend <strong>Lee Ralph<\/strong> that is worth a visit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THINK of how the Sex Pistols, with all their shooting star aggression, changed modern music, and you get an idea about the impact Ralph has had on skateboarding, a 20 million-strong nation these days. . . . . . &#8221;He was aggressive, but had a really good style. Just so flowing,&#8221; film-maker Andrew Moore, director of the documentary <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lumiere.net.nz\/reader\/item\/628\" target=\"_blank\">No More Heroes<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, which focuses on the rise of Kiwi skateboarding in the 70s and 80s, says. . . &#8221;He did a lot of tricks that no one had seen over there, and the Americans just loved it. To this day, any American skater you meet will always ask about Lee Ralph.&#8217; . . .&#8221;Lee&#8217;s more hardcore than any sort of hardcore rock and rollers I&#8217;ve met. He&#8217;s almost Bukowski-like.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s just the start. Click the link to read the rest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/sport\/other-sports\/6866985\/Lee-Ralph-the-caveman-poet-of-skateboarding\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stuff.co.nz<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#8217;s Stuff.co.nz has a great catching-up profile on skate legend Lee Ralph that is worth a visit. THINK of how the Sex Pistols, with all their shooting star aggression, changed modern music, and you get an idea about the impact Ralph has had on skateboarding, a 20 million-strong nation these days. . . . [&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\/30495"}],"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=30495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30505,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30495\/revisions\/30505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}