{"id":936,"date":"2008-06-30T08:05:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T14:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=936"},"modified":"2008-06-30T09:10:28","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T15:10:28","slug":"wait-a-minute-skateistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"Wait A Minute: Skateistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/skateyboy-wideweb-470x2930.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/skateyboy-wideweb-470x2930.jpg','popup','width=470,height=293,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\/2008\/06\/skateyboy-wideweb-470x2930-tm.jpg\" height=\"268\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Skateyboy Wideweb  470X293,0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the latest new craze in Kabul is not Kite Running. It&#8217;s skateboarding, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/world\/skateistan--where-falling-off-is-a-pastime\/2008\/06\/29\/1214677845735.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Skateboarding is the latest teen craze to hit Kabul. It was started by three Australians who see it as a way to help young Afghans and redefine the way rich foreigners interact with them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re born naturals,&#8221; said <strong>Oliver Percovich<\/strong>, watching a dozen kids whiz around the fountain outside an upmarket restaurant. &#8220;They&#8217;ve got more balance than Western kids, mainly because they&#8217;re not scared to fall and get up again.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oddly, the three Aussies have called their skateboarding introduction project &#8220;skateistan.&#8221; Click the link for more on how skateboarding is changing lives in Afganistan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/world\/skateistan--where-falling-off-is-a-pastime\/2008\/06\/29\/1214677845735.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the latest new craze in Kabul is not Kite Running. It&#8217;s skateboarding, according to a story in The Sydney Morning Herald. Skateboarding is the latest teen craze to hit Kabul. It was started by three Australians who see it as a way to help young Afghans and redefine the way rich foreigners interact with [&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\/936"}],"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=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}