{"id":8275,"date":"2009-05-22T08:06:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T15:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8275"},"modified":"2009-05-22T08:07:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T15:07:02","slug":"brian-tucci-professional-skate-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8275","title":{"rendered":"Brian Tucci: Professional Skate Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tucci.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tucci.jpg','popup','width=251,height=270,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\/tucci-tm.jpg\" height=\"215\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Tucci\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/05\/15\/AR2009051501697.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/strong> looks in on the antithesis of <strong>Ryan Sheckler<\/strong>-style  professional skateboarding with an extensive profile on Washington DC&#8217;s 36-year-old originator <strong>Brian Tucci<\/strong>. And it&#8217;s not exactly a happy story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet unlike skateboarding&#8217;s biggest stars &#8212; <strong>Tony Hawk<\/strong>, <strong>Rob Dyrdek<\/strong>, <strong>Bucky Lasek<\/strong> and <strong>Shaun White<\/strong> &#8212; Tucci has never found a way to cash in on his renown. Instead he has lived a nearly destitute, nomadic existence, couch-surfing at the homes of buddies, shacking up with girlfriends or staying at his mother&#8217;s house.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s tough to stop living the dream. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/05\/15\/AR2009051501697.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post looks in on the antithesis of Ryan Sheckler-style professional skateboarding with an extensive profile on Washington DC&#8217;s 36-year-old originator Brian Tucci. And it&#8217;s not exactly a happy story: Yet unlike skateboarding&#8217;s biggest stars &#8212; Tony Hawk, Rob Dyrdek, Bucky Lasek and Shaun White &#8212; Tucci has never found a way to cash [&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\/8275"}],"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=8275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8276,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions\/8276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}