{"id":802,"date":"2009-08-01T15:11:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T15:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=802"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:15","slug":"skateboard-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2009\/08\/skateboard-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/SK8NATION.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/SK8NATION.html','popup','width=750,height=356,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/SK8NATION-thumb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"237\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOver the years I&#8217;ve done a lot of skateboarding, most intensely in the mid-eighties to early nineties and these days cruising the streets of midtown Sacto on a longboard.  Recently the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Conor Dougherty wrote about what an incredibly skate-friendly city Portland Oregon is and to my luck the WSJ editors requested an interactive map of the best skateparks across the US.  As soon as I got the assignment I knew what to do.  Click on the image of above to see a larger version or the link below to see the interactive version &#8212; and take a few minutes to read the rad article as well.<br \/>\nWall Street Journal Link: <a href='http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204119704574238073660408040-search.html?KEYWORDS=portland&#038;COLLECTION=wsjie\/6month#project%3DSKATEPARK0907%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive%26video%3D147BB00E-35D7-404A-8252-A88118EB8910' target='new'>America&#8217;s Best Skateboarding Parks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve done a lot of skateboarding, most intensely in the mid-eighties to early nineties and these days cruising the streets of midtown Sacto on a longboard. Recently the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Conor Dougherty wrote about what an incredibly skate-friendly city Portland Oregon is and to my luck the WSJ editors requested an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}