{"id":174,"date":"2006-05-10T06:37:29","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T06:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/05\/10\/skate-attack-and-middlemores-bmx-adverts-november-1989\/"},"modified":"2006-05-10T12:38:06","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T12:38:06","slug":"skate-attack-and-middlemores-bmx-adverts-november-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/05\/10\/skate-attack-and-middlemores-bmx-adverts-november-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Skate Attack and Middlemore&#8217;s BMX Adverts November 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/81\/rad81_52.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/81\/thumb-rad81_52.jpg\" width=\"141\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Skateboard Adverts November 1989\" title=\"Skateboard Adverts November 1989\"  \/><\/a>What a nightmare page: two not-really-core skateboard shops and a subscription advert. I wonder what Middlemore&#8217;s thought they were getting into with this BMX advert? Skate Attack in London&#8217;s Kentish Town were very serious about rollerskates but I don&#8217;t think skateboards were so much their thing.<br \/>\nAs to the subscription advert &#8212; Like it says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Clues? Get them here! Neatly packaged and slipped to you in an easily assimilated package of hard-edged action pictures and all-pervading enthusiasm. And the time? It&#8217;s getting late: sign up now before the next age is upon us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We were right about the time. 1989 probably marked another of skateboarding&#8217;s peaks in Britain and things did slip a bit downhill after this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a nightmare page: two not-really-core skateboard shops and a subscription advert. I wonder what Middlemore&#8217;s thought they were getting into with this BMX advert? Skate Attack in London&#8217;s Kentish Town were very serious about rollerskates but I don&#8217;t think skateboards were so much their thing. As to the subscription advert &#8212; Like it says: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adverts","category-issue-81-november-1989"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}