{"id":2130,"date":"2008-10-14T08:09:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T15:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2008-10-14T08:09:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T15:09:01","slug":"uk-dumpster-mini-ramp-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2130","title":{"rendered":"UK Dumpster Mini-ramp Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/skip2w-450x300.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"286\" alt=\"Skip2W_450x300.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UK artist <strong>Oliver Bishop-Young<\/strong> has taken dumpsters (apparently called &#8220;skips&#8221; in Britain) and turned them into all kinds of cool things, including a pool, a lawn, and more importantly a mini-ramp.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mr Bishop-Young designed his &#8216;skip art&#8217; as playgrounds for youngsters. But he also hopes the works will help encourage people to share their useful rubbish &#8211; such as old furniture and clothes &#8211; with friends and neighbours. . . . &#8216;It&#8217;s something an individual can do to make their impact on the city,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One man&#8217;s skip. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/news\/article.html?Artists_work_belongs_in_the_skip&amp;in_article_id=354676&amp;in_page_id=34\" target=\"_blank\">Metro.co.uk<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK artist Oliver Bishop-Young has taken dumpsters (apparently called &#8220;skips&#8221; in Britain) and turned them into all kinds of cool things, including a pool, a lawn, and more importantly a mini-ramp. Mr Bishop-Young designed his &#8216;skip art&#8217; as playgrounds for youngsters. But he also hopes the works will help encourage people to share their useful [&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":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}