{"id":9743,"date":"2009-08-11T07:50:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T14:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9743"},"modified":"2010-09-21T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T00:01:23","slug":"nyc-og-skater-andy-kessler-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9743","title":{"rendered":"NYC OG Skater Andy Kessler Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/andykesslerasbury.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/andykesslerasbury.jpg','popup','width=552,height=843,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\/08\/andykesslerasbury-tm.jpg\" height=\"152\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Andykesslerasbury\" \/><\/a>New York City&#8217;s skate scene lost a legend yesterday when <strong>Andy Kessler<\/strong> died of an apparent allergic reaction, according to a post by <strong>Bryce Kanights<\/strong> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skatedaily.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skatedaily.net<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are saddened to report this evening that The Grandmaster of 108, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QeCaaIVx1Qs&amp;feature=channel_page\">Andy Kessler<\/a><\/strong> died today from an apparent allergic reaction to a sting from a hornet while on the Montauk peninsula. He was one of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/nymetro\/news\/sports\/features\/11956\/\">New York City\u2019s legendary pioneers<\/a><\/strong> of its core skate scene in the 70s and in later years became a huge proponent of the skateboarding community and its culture in the Big Apple. He will be greatly missed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Epicly Later&#8217;d<\/strong> has a collection of photos of Andy <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epiclylaterd.com\/kesslerrip.html\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QeCaaIVx1Qs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QeCaaIVx1Qs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skatedaily.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skatedaily.net<\/a><\/strong><strong>, <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theskateboardmag.com\/blogs\/templeton-elliott\/2009\/08\/11\/andy-kessler-passes\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Skateboard Mag<\/a><\/strong><strong>, <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/nymetro\/news\/sports\/features\/11956\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York Magazine<\/a><\/strong><strong>, and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epiclylaterd.com\/kesslerrip.html\" target=\"_blank\">Epicly Later&#8217;d<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City&#8217;s skate scene lost a legend yesterday when Andy Kessler died of an apparent allergic reaction, according to a post by Bryce Kanights on Skatedaily.net. We are saddened to report this evening that The Grandmaster of 108, Andy Kessler died today from an apparent allergic reaction to a sting from a hornet while [&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":[3,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743"}],"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=9743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17961,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743\/revisions\/17961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}