{"id":63278,"date":"2020-12-15T17:33:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T00:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=63278"},"modified":"2020-12-18T21:32:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T04:32:59","slug":"walker-ryan-wrote-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=63278","title":{"rendered":"Walker Ryan Wrote A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/topofmason-144x200.png\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-63279\" width=\"144\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/topofmason-144x200.png 144w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/topofmason.png 351w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/>Top of Mason<\/em><\/strong>, is professional skater&nbsp;<strong>Walker Ryan&#8217;s<\/strong> new, self-published first novel. We&#8217;re looking forward to reading it, here&#8217;s what Walker says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I like to think that this is the first novel set in the world of modern professional skateboarding. But it isn\u2019t really about skateboarding. It\u2019s an adventure story about a guy trying to get over a break up\u2014intersecting the worlds of skateboarding, contemporary celebrity, and homelessness\u2014all the while dealing with a late-twenties identity crisis. All the characters are fictional, but it\u2019s inspired by my love for San Francisco and my appreciation for the many unique individuals I\u2019ve met through skateboarding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The cover was designed by <strong>Sebo Walker<\/strong> and $1 from the sale of each book is going to Glide in San Francisco offering meals and shelter services to those in need. To get a copy of <em>Top of Mason<\/em>, check the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oldfriendsandco.com\/pages\/top-of-mason\">Old Friends site<\/a><\/strong>. For <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrashermagazine.com\/articles\/wax-the-coping-walker-ryan\/\">an interview<\/a><\/strong> with Walker by <strong>Michael Sieben<\/strong> check out <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrashermagazine.com\/articles\/wax-the-coping-walker-ryan\/\">Thrasher<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/oldfriendsandco.com\/pages\/top-of-mason\">Old Friends<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top of Mason, is professional skater&nbsp;Walker Ryan&#8217;s new, self-published first novel. We&#8217;re looking forward to reading it, here&#8217;s what Walker says: &#8220;I like to think that this is the first novel set in the world of modern professional skateboarding. But it isn\u2019t really about skateboarding. It\u2019s an adventure story about a guy trying to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63278"}],"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=63278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63286,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63278\/revisions\/63286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}