{"id":30560,"date":"2012-05-08T10:06:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T17:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30560"},"modified":"2012-05-08T10:18:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T17:18:28","slug":"skateboarders-menace-the-citizenry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30560","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarders &#8220;Menace The Citizenry&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the LA City Council&#8217;s recent attempt to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30433\" target=\"_blank\">crack down on hill-bombing skateboarders<\/a><\/strong>, the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2012\/may\/05\/opinion\/la-le-0505-saturday-skateboard-20120505\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> has been the repository for comments from general citizens who applaud the work of the council. Our favorite was from <strong>Edward Golden<\/strong> of Northridge, California.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Skateboarders should have been reeled in a long time ago. Their total lack of accountability should have been lawfully addressed from the start. . . They menace the citizenry and disturb the peace in residential neighborhoods and vandalize city property by relentlessly pounding curbs, streets and you-name-it in an endless pursuit of becoming the next Tony Hawk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s never a real discussion until someone mentions <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">Hitler <\/span><strong>Tony Hawk<\/strong>. Apparently, Golden is the real &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30495\" target=\"_blank\">caveman poet<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; of skateboarding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2012\/may\/05\/opinion\/la-le-0505-saturday-skateboard-20120505\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the LA City Council&#8217;s recent attempt to crack down on hill-bombing skateboarders, the LA Times has been the repository for comments from general citizens who applaud the work of the council. Our favorite was from Edward Golden of Northridge, California. Skateboarders should have been reeled in a long time ago. Their total lack of [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30560"}],"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=30560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30564,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30560\/revisions\/30564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}