{"id":982,"date":"2008-07-02T11:15:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T18:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=982"},"modified":"2008-07-02T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T04:43:09","slug":"sheckler-a-skating-heartthrob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"Sheckler A &#8220;Skating Heartthrob&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/ryan-shecklerx.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/ryan-shecklerx.jpg','popup','width=245,height=368,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\/07\/ryan-shecklerx-tm.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ryan-Shecklerx\" \/><\/a>You&#8217;ve have to go back all the way to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tigerbeatmag.com\/celebs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tigerbeat<\/a><\/strong> photos of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dfw.com\/startle_grams\/images\/leif75_4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Leif Garrett <\/a><\/strong>on a skateboard to come up with someone with the ability to drive teen girls wild like Cryin&#8217; <strong>Ryan Sheckler<\/strong>. And <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/2008-07-01-ryan-sheckler_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is all over the story.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He also has become a teen heartthrob who attracts hordes of squealing, screaming female fans to his competitions and public appearances. &#8220;I think of myself as a skateboarder first and a guy on TV second,&#8221; he said in an interview after the June 19-22 Dew Tour Panasonic Open in Baltimore, where the crowds of girls seeking his autograph were so huge, organizers had to post signs near other athletes&#8217; tables reading &#8220;Not Ryan Sheckler.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Confession: we watch Life of Ryan religiously. So we know what they&#8217;re talking about. Okay, not really.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/2008-07-01-ryan-sheckler_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve have to go back all the way to Tigerbeat photos of Leif Garrett on a skateboard to come up with someone with the ability to drive teen girls wild like Cryin&#8217; Ryan Sheckler. And USA Today is all over the story. He also has become a teen heartthrob who attracts hordes of squealing, screaming [&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":[15,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982"}],"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=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}