{"id":6831,"date":"2009-03-26T10:35:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T17:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6831"},"modified":"2009-03-26T10:35:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T17:35:40","slug":"hover-the-skateboarding-missionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6831","title":{"rendered":"Hover The Skateboarding Missionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/hover.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/hover.jpeg','popup','width=550,height=367,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\/03\/hover-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Hover\" \/><\/a><strong>Shaun Hover<\/strong> is spreading the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the world with his skateboard, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hometownlife.com\/article\/20090326\/LIFE\/90326009\" target=\"_blank\">Homtownlife.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn L.A., there are so many skateboarders. I skate down the sidewalk and see guys skating and start talking to them. It makes it easy, I guess. Sometimes I feel like I\u2019m cheating,\u201d the Rochester Hills native said with a laugh. \u201cWhen I have a board, it makes it more comfortable to talk with someone on the street because skateboarding is such a street sport.\u201d. . In Thailand, we were going around to different villages, getting to know people, teaching the kids English,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I\u2019d pull out my skateboard, everyone would come and gather around. They were fascinated &#8230; it made them more interested in what we were offering.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Love the passion, but nothing blows a good skate session faster than when someone starts preaching. But then hopefully Shaun is a little stealthier than that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hometownlife.com\/article\/20090326\/LIFE\/90326009\" target=\"_blank\">Hometownlife.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaun Hover is spreading the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the world with his skateboard, according to a story on Homtownlife.com. \u201cIn L.A., there are so many skateboarders. I skate down the sidewalk and see guys skating and start talking to them. It makes it easy, I guess. Sometimes I feel like I\u2019m [&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\/6831"}],"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=6831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6832,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions\/6832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}