{"id":32172,"date":"2012-09-10T17:08:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T00:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=32172"},"modified":"2012-09-10T17:16:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T00:16:47","slug":"four-skateistan-kids-dead-in-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=32172","title":{"rendered":"Four Skateistan Kids Dead In Suicide Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/kushidprofile_custom-999dedd1944d2d32c4775cb27bcd7908815e1137-s3.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/kushidprofile_custom-999dedd1944d2d32c4775cb27bcd7908815e1137-s3.jpeg','popup','width=462,height=483,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\/2012\/09\/kushidprofile_custom-999dedd1944d2d32c4775cb27bcd7908815e1137-s3-tm.jpg\" height=\"209\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Kushidprofile Custom-999Dedd1944D2D32C4775Cb27Bcd7908815E1137-S3\" \/><\/a>The skateboard outreach program in Kabul, Afghanistan, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skateistan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skateistan<\/a><\/strong>, lost four kids (including one of their skate instructors, <strong>Khorshid<\/strong> pictured right) this weekend (September 8, 2012)  when a teenage <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/d4b1a45e-f9da-11e1-9f6a-00144feabdc0.html\" target=\"_blank\">suicide bomber attacked<\/a><\/strong> near NATO headquarters at the entrance of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camp_Eggers\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Eggers<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2012\/09\/10\/160900192\/kabuls-first-skate-park-suffers-tragic-loss-in-weekend-attack?ft=1&amp;f=1001&amp;sc=tw&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">NPR.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;From the start, Khorshid (whose name translates to &#8216;happy&#8217; in English) stood apart with a tough, cheeky and sensitive personality, smiling no matter what troubles she had to deal with day-to-day,&#8221; the program reports. &#8220;She knew what she wanted in life and wasn&#8217;t afraid to fight for it despite having more responsibilities and sorrows than a child should ever have.&#8221; . . <strong>Nawab<\/strong>, 17, also died. He was one of the first boys in the program and was known as having one of best kickflips. . . <strong>Parwana<\/strong> was Khorshid&#8217;s younger sister. She was just 8-years-old. Assad, the program says, was not a skater but he was family and well known at the skatepark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Taliban was reportedly targeting the &#8220;CIA&#8221; in the blast. Our thoughts are with the families of the four kids who were killed and with the entire Skateistan organization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2012\/09\/10\/160900192\/kabuls-first-skate-park-suffers-tragic-loss-in-weekend-attack?\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skateistan.org\/blog\/tragic-loss\" target=\"_blank\">Skateistan<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The skateboard outreach program in Kabul, Afghanistan, Skateistan, lost four kids (including one of their skate instructors, Khorshid pictured right) this weekend (September 8, 2012) when a teenage suicide bomber attacked near NATO headquarters at the entrance of Camp Eggers, according to a story on NPR.com. &#8220;From the start, Khorshid (whose name translates to &#8216;happy&#8217; [&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":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32172"}],"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=32172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32175,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32172\/revisions\/32175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}