{"id":9747,"date":"2009-08-10T21:16:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T04:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9747"},"modified":"2009-08-11T08:26:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T15:26:21","slug":"tony-hawks-zulu-skate-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9747","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hawk&#8217;s Zulu Skate Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/22090139.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/22090139.jpg','popup','width=600,height=450,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\/22090139-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"22090139\" \/><\/a>Between the <strong>X Games<\/strong> and a red carpet premiere of <strong>Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inglouriousbasterds-movie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inglourious Basterds<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Tony Hawk<\/strong> flew to South Africa with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.laureus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Laureus Sports Foundation<\/a><\/strong> for a two-night visit to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indigoskatecamp.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indigo Skate Camp<\/a><\/strong> outside Durban. Here&#8217;s what he said on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tonyhawk\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amazing to see Zulu kids skating with no outside influences. . . These kids are fearless, and not jaded by the media&#8217;s interpretation of what&#8217;s cool. True passion. . . These kids have style for days. Isthumba, Valley of 1000 HIlls, SA. . . Goodbye, Indigo Skate Camp. You are proof that skateboarding can change the world. Great work Dallas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seventy hours of travel for 48 hours of sharing. Tony Hawk just doesn&#8217;t stop giving back. . . these kids will remember it for a life time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tonyhawk\" target=\"_blank\">@Tony Hawk<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between the X Games and a red carpet premiere of Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s Inglourious Basterds, Tony Hawk flew to South Africa with The Laureus Sports Foundation for a two-night visit to the Indigo Skate Camp outside Durban. Here&#8217;s what he said on Twitter: Amazing to see Zulu kids skating with no outside influences. . . These [&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":[15,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747"}],"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=9747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9748,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}