{"id":46315,"date":"2014-05-28T13:02:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T20:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=46315"},"modified":"2014-05-28T13:48:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T20:48:48","slug":"bret-anthony-johnston-on-the-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=46315","title":{"rendered":"Bret Anthony Johnston On The Mini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YBmyRQusces?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a normal clip of an average old guy throwing down ten tricks on the mini at Camp Woodward. What is special about this edit (aside from the blunts) is that the skater, <strong>Bret Anthony Johnston<\/strong>, is the director of creative writing at <a href=\"http:\/\/english.fas.harvard.edu\/faculty\/johnston\/\"><strong>Harvard<\/strong><\/a> and his debut novel (<strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1400062128\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1400062128&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkId=QMZLIILU4BCSRLEV\">Remember Me Like This<\/a><\/em><\/strong>) just dropped on May 13, 2014. <\/p>\n<p>Now, watch that edit again. Yep, Johnston may be the best literary fiction writing skateboard professor in the world. If that isn&#8217;t enough reason for you to check out his book, then here&#8217;s a review from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/books\/bret-anthony-johnstons-remember-me-like-this-reviewed-by-ron-charles\/2014\/05\/06\/3bb1f3bc-d093-11e3-937f-d3026234b51c_story.html\"><b><i>Washington Post<\/i><\/b><\/a>. Oh, and both <strong>John Irving<\/strong> and <strong>Tom Perrotta<\/strong> liked <em>Remember Me Like This<\/em> as well. If you know them, then you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a normal clip of an average old guy throwing down ten tricks on the mini at Camp Woodward. What is special about this edit (aside from the blunts) is that the skater, Bret Anthony Johnston, is the director of creative writing at Harvard and his debut novel (Remember Me Like This) just dropped on [&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":[11,9,3,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46315"}],"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=46315"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46324,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46315\/revisions\/46324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}