{"id":31521,"date":"2012-07-24T09:14:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T16:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=31521"},"modified":"2012-07-26T10:45:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:45:19","slug":"the-new-yorker-notices-skateboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=31521","title":{"rendered":"The New Yorker Notices Skateboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Mark-Gonzales.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Mark-Gonzales.jpg','popup','width=465,height=347,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\/07\/Mark-Gonzales-tm.jpg\" height=\"320\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Mark-Gonzales\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/skateboarding.transworld.net\/tag\/30th-anniversary-interviews\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transworld Skateboarding&#8217;s 30th Anniversary<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/culture\/2012\/07\/top-thirty-skateboarders-transworld.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a><\/em><\/strong> writer <strong>James Guida<\/strong> posts a nice overview of skaters old and young past and present. And, shockingly, gets most of it right (<strong>Stacy<\/strong> as in <strong>Peralta, <\/strong>however, is spelled with no e, so much for <em>New Yorker<\/em> fact checkers, huh?).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It shouldn\u2019t be surprising, then, that <em>Transworld\u2019s<\/em> videos are highly watchable. Part of the novelty for fans comes from seeing people whose identities you\u2019ve previously cobbled together from anecdotes, interviews, and a few shreds of off-board footage. But once you\u2019ve gotten over that, the profiles simply form an engaging gallery of portraits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click the link for the long, overly analytical discussion of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skateboarding.transworld.net\/tag\/30th-anniversary-interviews\/\" target=\"_blank\">30 Most Influential Skaters of all Time<\/a><\/strong> videos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/culture\/2012\/07\/top-thirty-skateboarders-transworld.html\">The New Yorker<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of Transworld Skateboarding&#8217;s 30th Anniversary, The New Yorker writer James Guida posts a nice overview of skaters old and young past and present. And, shockingly, gets most of it right (Stacy as in Peralta, however, is spelled with no e, so much for New Yorker fact checkers, huh?). It shouldn\u2019t be surprising, [&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\/31521"}],"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=31521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31563,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31521\/revisions\/31563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}