{"id":7816,"date":"2009-05-05T17:12:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T00:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7816"},"modified":"2009-05-05T17:12:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T00:12:13","slug":"cuba-skate-liberation-the-nieratkos-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7816","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Skate Liberation: The Nieratkos&#8217; Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/6a00d8341c625053ef0115706fbe84970b-400wijpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/6a00d8341c625053ef0115706fbe84970b-400wijpg.jpeg','popup','width=400,height=342,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\/05\/6a00d8341c625053ef0115706fbe84970b-400wi-tm.jpg\" height=\"171\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"6A00D8341C625053Ef0115706Fbe84970B-400Wi.Jpg\" \/><\/a><strong>Chris Nieratko<\/strong> and his pregnant wife took a trip to Cuba recently to hand out quality skateboards to the kids who can&#8217;t get them thanks to international politics. Here&#8217;s what was up:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently a crew of 18 friends and I flew to Cuba (via Panama) to give away skateboards to the kids down there who can\u2019t get them because of the embargo. The full stories will appear in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/vice.typepad.com\/vice_magazine\/2009\/05\/meet-the-nieratkos-cuba-part-1.html#comments%22\" target=\"_blank\">Vice<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theskateboardmag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Skateboard Mag<\/a><\/strong> in a few months. You can read the background story<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisnieratko.com\/jan09.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisnieratko.com\/jan09.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Or watch t<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skatecuba.co.uk\/watch.html\" target=\"_blank\">his inspirational little documentary<\/a><\/strong> on the scene down in Havana that prompted us to put the trip together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This should be interesting. .  .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vice.typepad.com\/vice_magazine\/2009\/05\/meet-the-nieratkos-cuba-part-1.html#comments%22\" target=\"_blank\">Vice<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><span style=\"color:#1919ff;text-decoration:underline;\"><strong>es shoes<\/strong><\/span><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Nieratko and his pregnant wife took a trip to Cuba recently to hand out quality skateboards to the kids who can&#8217;t get them thanks to international politics. Here&#8217;s what was up: Recently a crew of 18 friends and I flew to Cuba (via Panama) to give away skateboards to the kids down there who [&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\/7816"}],"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=7816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7817,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7816\/revisions\/7817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}