{"id":8980,"date":"2009-07-06T03:36:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T10:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8980"},"modified":"2009-07-05T11:39:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T18:39:55","slug":"stefan-janoski-hometown-shoe-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8980","title":{"rendered":"Stefan Janoski: Hometown Shoe Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vacaville, California&#8217;s <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thereporter.com\/features\/ci_12756802\" target=\"_blank\">The Reporter<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is pretty proud of 1997 Vacaville High School graduate <strong>Stefan Janoski<\/strong>. And they should be.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His skills stood out so much (like the sport&#8217;s biggest star <strong>Tony Hawk<\/strong>) that <strong>Nike<\/strong> even designed a shoe after him &#8212; the Zoom Stefan Janoski SB (the shoe launched in May). A member of the Nike skate team, Janoski was there every step of the way and, besides the iconic Nike swoosh, each shoe has a personal tribute to Janoski&#8217;s hometown &#8212; Vacaville, California is stitched on the tongue of each shoe, along with his name. . . &#8220;It&#8217;s funny to me. This is where it all started,&#8221; the 29-year-old Sacramento resident admitted as he walked around Andrews Park and the front of the Georgie Duke Center. &#8220;It&#8217;s good to remember that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s always good to remember where you&#8217;re from.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thereporter.com\/features\/ci_12756802\" target=\"_blank\">The Reporter<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vacaville, California&#8217;s The Reporter is pretty proud of 1997 Vacaville High School graduate Stefan Janoski. And they should be. His skills stood out so much (like the sport&#8217;s biggest star Tony Hawk) that Nike even designed a shoe after him &#8212; the Zoom Stefan Janoski SB (the shoe launched in May). A member of the [&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\/8980"}],"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=8980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8981,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980\/revisions\/8981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}