{"id":53,"date":"2008-08-21T00:50:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T07:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-08-21T00:50:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T07:50:55","slug":"skate-or-die-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Skate or Die 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, someone purchased me a wonderful skateboard for my birthday last year.\u00c2\u00a0 It was the first skateboard I&#8217;ve had since Tony Hawk signed mine sometime during junior year (1997) of high school and I quit riding it&#8230; cause it had a Tony Hawk signature on it!\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, I had some good fun last summer cruising around on my little board.\u00c2\u00a0 I had some jumbo wheels and crazy-fast bearings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/images\/CrossStep.jpg\" alt=\"My New Board\" width=\"307\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deep inside, I wanted a longboard.\u00c2\u00a0 So, in a fit of desperation&#8230; while somewhat depressed about things I cannot disclose for fear of violating my ethical duties to my clients&#8230; I purchased a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arborsports.com\/merchant2\/crossstep.html\" target=\"_blank\">new longboard<\/a> from <a title=\"Arbor Skateboards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arborsports.com\/merchant2\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Arbor Skateboards<\/a> in Venice.\u00c2\u00a0 Local boys make good sorta dealio.\u00c2\u00a0 Basically, I gather this company started with a theme of &#8220;green&#8221; renewable resource boards and has now grown much larger than they expected.\u00c2\u00a0 As an added bonus, I got a sweet, super-soft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arborsports.com\/merchant2\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=AOS&amp;Product_Code=31328120951&amp;Category_Code=MBB\" target=\"_blank\">bamboo fabric shirt<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a sweet picture of me (not really) in the shirt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/images\/unleashed.jpg\" alt=\"Unleashed\" width=\"360\" height=\"504\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I haven&#8217;t gotten to ride it much yet, but I have tried it out&#8230; Hopefully this weekend I&#8217;ll have a little time to play.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/images\/skeet.jpg\" alt=\"Skate!\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[15,14,25],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","category-skate","tag-arbor","tag-photos","tag-skate"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":21,"uagb_excerpt":"[&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}