{"id":7654,"date":"2009-04-24T10:53:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T17:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7654"},"modified":"2009-04-24T10:53:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T17:53:30","slug":"skatepark-school-bus-transformer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7654","title":{"rendered":"Skatepark School Bus Transformer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/480-bus-subarujpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/480-bus-subarujpg.jpeg','popup','width=480,height=289,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\/04\/480-bus-subaru-tm.jpg\" height=\"258\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"480-Bus-Subaru.Jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When students of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artcenter.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Art Center College of Design<\/a><\/strong> in Pasadena, California were asked to redesign the school bus and to &#8220;improve the efficiency and safety of buses and to imagine at least two other functions for them in addition to transporting students,&#8221; <strong>Andrew Kang<\/strong> knew exactly what he wanted to do:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Andrew Kang, sponsored by Subaru and DC Shoes, designed a bus that can be converted into a mobile skateboard park, with ramps that unfold. The bus also functions as a portable art classroom whose interior can be repeatedly painted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A bus like that would make going to school worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wheels.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/24\/a-bit-of-whimsy-why-not-in-school-bus-design\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When students of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California were asked to redesign the school bus and to &#8220;improve the efficiency and safety of buses and to imagine at least two other functions for them in addition to transporting students,&#8221; Andrew Kang knew exactly what he wanted to do: Andrew Kang, sponsored [&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":[11,24,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654"}],"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=7654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7655,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions\/7655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}