{"id":44228,"date":"2013-11-20T12:08:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T20:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44228"},"modified":"2013-11-20T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T20:09:42","slug":"i-am-thalente-up-from-africas-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44228","title":{"rendered":"I Am Thalente: Up From Africa&#8217;s Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lGL5XzSRSvs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedandspark.com\/studio\/i-am-thalenteto\"><em><strong>I Am Thalente<\/strong><\/em><\/a> follows the unlikely journey of <strong>Thalente Biyela<\/strong>, a South African street kid and skateboarder whose formal education ended at 8. He&#8217;s been homeless since 11, and now, thanks to skateboarding, he finds himself rolling with some of the best skateboarders in the business and a U.S. Athlete Visa.<\/p>\n<p>The producers of this film need a little help to get it completed so they&#8217;ve turned to crowd funding site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedandspark.com\/studio\/i-am-thalenteto\"><strong>Seed &amp; Spark<\/strong><\/a> to get things rolling. Check out this trailer, then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedandspark.com\/studio\/i-am-thalenteto\"><strong>click the link<\/strong><\/a> and do what you can.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedandspark.com\/studio\/i-am-thalenteto\">I Am Thalente<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new documentary I Am Thalente follows the unlikely journey of Thalente Biyela, a South African street kid and skateboarder whose formal education ended at 8. He&#8217;s been homeless since 11, and now, thanks to skateboarding, he finds himself rolling with some of the best skateboarders in the business and a U.S. Athlete Visa. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44228"}],"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=44228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44231,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44228\/revisions\/44231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}