{"id":4552,"date":"2009-01-26T08:22:03","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T16:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4552"},"modified":"2009-01-26T08:23:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T16:23:02","slug":"skateboarding-spreading-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4552","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarding Spreading Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/26skatexlarge1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/26skatexlarge1.jpg','popup','width=600,height=360,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\/26skatexlarge1-tm.jpg\" height=\"258\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"26Skate.Xlarge1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We first mentioned <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skateistan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project Skateistan<\/a><\/strong> in a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=936\" target=\"_blank\">June 30, 2008 post<\/a><\/strong>, and then again on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3848\" target=\"_blank\">January 7, 2009<\/a><\/strong>. Now, the Skateistan story of teaching peace through skateboarding in Pakistan continues in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/26\/sports\/othersports\/26skate.html?_r=2&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> as only they can tell it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It looked like an ordinary neighborhood playground: six children tumbling off their skateboards to the tune of laughter. But only hours before, just 20 yards away, the body of a suicide car bomber was sprawled beside a glistening pool of blood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more information on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skateistan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project Skateistan<\/a><\/strong> visit their <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skateistan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/26\/sports\/othersports\/26skate.html?_r=2&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skatedaily.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skatedaily.net<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We first mentioned Project Skateistan in a June 30, 2008 post, and then again on January 7, 2009. Now, the Skateistan story of teaching peace through skateboarding in Pakistan continues in the New York Times as only they can tell it. It looked like an ordinary neighborhood playground: six children tumbling off their skateboards to [&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\/4552"}],"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=4552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4555,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions\/4555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}