{"id":9457,"date":"2009-07-27T13:56:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T20:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9457"},"modified":"2009-07-27T16:05:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T23:05:19","slug":"dogtown-z-boy-paul-cullen-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9457","title":{"rendered":"Dogtown Z-Boy Paul Cullen Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/29059fb1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/29059fb1.jpg','popup','width=792,height=587,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\/2009\/07\/29059fb1-tm.jpg\" height=\"318\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"29059Fb1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Baby Paul Cullen<\/strong>, life-long friend of <strong>Jay Adams<\/strong> and the youngest of the skateboarders made famous by artist\/photographer <strong>Craig Stecyk&#8217;s<\/strong> Dogtown stories, died on July 23, 2009, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yovenice.com\/2009\/07\/23\/baby-paul-cullen-1962-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yovenice.com<\/a><\/strong>. He was 47. <\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulldogskates.websitetoolbox.com\/post?id=3578685&amp;trail=45\" target=\"_blank\">C.R. Stecyk photo<\/a><\/strong> (above) will remain our favorite image of Paul if not our favorite skate photo ever. Paul&#8217;s worn down Vans, torn shorts, and complete overflow of innate style in motion captivated us as kids and made us want to be skateboarders even though we didn&#8217;t know any.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christie Martin<\/strong> remembers him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I want people to know, that his life wasn\u2019t about drugs. He had great friends and wanted to do whatever it took to support his daughter and live a good life. It just so happens that when the pressure got to much drugs knew just how to sneak in in those moments and grab him. . . .He should be remembered as a ripper skater, shredder surfer, and loving doting father. We will love, and honor you forever in our hearts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A memorial service was held at 10:30am Saturday the 25th at St. Monicas Catholic Church on California Ave in Santa Monica.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yovenice.com\/2009\/07\/23\/baby-paul-cullen-1962-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yovenice.com<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/2009\/07\/27\/baby-paul-cullen-1962-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">SkateandAnnoy.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baby Paul Cullen, life-long friend of Jay Adams and the youngest of the skateboarders made famous by artist\/photographer Craig Stecyk&#8217;s Dogtown stories, died on July 23, 2009, according to a story on Yovenice.com. He was 47. The C.R. Stecyk photo (above) will remain our favorite image of Paul if not our favorite skate photo ever. [&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\/9457"}],"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=9457"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9474,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457\/revisions\/9474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}