{"id":3848,"date":"2009-01-07T09:27:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T17:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2009-01-07T09:27:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T17:27:43","slug":"peace-through-superior-skateboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3848","title":{"rendered":"Peace Through Superior Skateboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/mbn-skateistan-420x0.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/mbn-skateistan-420x0.jpg','popup','width=420,height=300,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\/2009\/01\/mbn-skateistan-420x0-tm.jpg\" height=\"142\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Mbn Skateistan-420X0\" \/><\/a>Using an empty fountain in suburb of Macroroyan in Afghanistan&#8217;s capital city Kabul, <strong>Sharna Nolan<\/strong>, 31, is teaching peace with a skateboard. It is called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skateistan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project Skateistan<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ms Nolan said of the eager pupils, with as many girls as boys: &#8220;Skateboarding has given them a chance to be children and to smile.&#8221; . . . The sport has taken root so strongly in Kabul that the couple and their team of volunteers, who call their project Skateistan, plan to start a school with $70,000 raised so far and another $70,000 that has still to be found. . . . Land has been donated by Afghans in three provinces for indoor recreational centres with facilities for traditional Afghan sports as well as skateboarding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously the organization needs all the help they can get. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skateistan.org\/how-you-can-help\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a><\/strong> to learn more about helping to support the cause.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skateistan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skateistan<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/children-of-conflict-zone-jump-aboard-for-skateistan-20090107-7bxc.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Age<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using an empty fountain in suburb of Macroroyan in Afghanistan&#8217;s capital city Kabul, Sharna Nolan, 31, is teaching peace with a skateboard. It is called Project Skateistan. Ms Nolan said of the eager pupils, with as many girls as boys: &#8220;Skateboarding has given them a chance to be children and to smile.&#8221; . . . [&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\/3848"}],"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=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3849,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions\/3849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}