{"id":8612,"date":"2009-06-10T07:33:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T14:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8612"},"modified":"2009-06-10T07:33:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T14:33:45","slug":"skateistan-rolls-forward-with-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8612","title":{"rendered":"Skateistan Rolls Forward With School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/1e74f8984136895634276f43eda6.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/1e74f8984136895634276f43eda6.jpeg','popup','width=404,height=300,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\/06\/1e74f8984136895634276f43eda6-tm.jpg\" height=\"148\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"1E74F8984136895634276F43Eda6\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skateistan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skateistan<\/a><\/strong>, the organization that is using skateboarding to help teach peace and personal empowerment to the children of Afghanistan, is now building out a skatepark\/classroom facility that will include &#8220;rooms for launguage and music classes,&#8221; according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/article\/648290\" target=\"_blank\">The Toronto Star<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The organization in October asked the Canadian government for $5,000 and was given $15,000. The German embassy has invested $140,000 and Denmark has contributed $125,000. Percovich has raised enough to build a 1,750-square-metre indoor skate park, a $200,000 steel-roofed building that will be completed this August. He hopes to attract hundreds of children and teenagers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not all happiness. Some see the school as teaching a &#8220;western indulgence&#8221; and one girl has been reportedly beaten by her brothers for skateboarding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/article\/648290\" target=\"_blank\">The Toronto Star<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skateistan, the organization that is using skateboarding to help teach peace and personal empowerment to the children of Afghanistan, is now building out a skatepark\/classroom facility that will include &#8220;rooms for launguage and music classes,&#8221; according to a story in The Toronto Star. The organization in October asked the Canadian government for $5,000 and was [&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\/8612"}],"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=8612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8613,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions\/8613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}