{"id":171,"date":"2006-05-07T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/05\/07\/crouch-end-skateboard-ramp-a-green-issue-in-1989\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T16:50:35","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T16:50:35","slug":"crouch-end-skateboard-ramp-a-green-issue-in-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/05\/07\/crouch-end-skateboard-ramp-a-green-issue-in-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Crouch End Skateboard Ramp &#8211; A Green Issue in 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/81\/rad81_49.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/81\/thumb-rad81_49.jpg\" width=\"139\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Article about Crouch End Ramp 1989\" title=\"Article about Crouch End Ramp 1989\"  \/><\/a>This article about the ramp in Crouch End speaks of it being under threat of demolition back in 1989. I walked past it a few months ago at the end of 2005 and it was still there and as damp as ever in the winter. &#8220;Jay Podesta&#8221; is credited as the writer as well as photographer. This was a bumper issue for him.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>A GREEN ISSUE<\/h2>\n<p> <em>by Jay Podesta<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There hasn&#8217;t been a competition at Crouch End since the ramp was built. But the competition at the end of September wasn&#8217;t a late celebration of its opening _ it was prompted by fear for its future. The ground the ramp sits on is threatened land. Threatened by the Department of Transport who would see fit to put a six lane elevated motorway through the railway cutting the ramp sits in.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CAPTIONS:<br \/>\nBleasdale adopts the green stance with a nose-pick <\/p>\n<p>Ray Kurtis made a competetive debut with styley eco-Smiths<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article about the ramp in Crouch End speaks of it being under threat of demolition back in 1989. I walked past it a few months ago at the end of 2005 and it was still there and as damp as ever in the winter. &#8220;Jay Podesta&#8221; is credited as the writer as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-81-november-1989"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}