{"id":216,"date":"2006-06-19T07:25:36","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T07:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/06\/19\/rollermania-pictured-as-pirates-by-themselves\/"},"modified":"2006-06-16T14:26:02","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T14:26:02","slug":"rollermania-pictured-as-pirates-by-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/06\/19\/rollermania-pictured-as-pirates-by-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Rollermania pictured as pirates (by themselves)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/82\/rad82_32.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/82\/thumb-rad82_32.jpg\" width=\"174\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Rollermania, Split and other 1989 UK skateboard adverts\" title=\"Rollermania, Split and other 1989 UK skateboard adverts\"  \/><\/a>For me this page is all about the Rollermania advert. Other UK shops and distributors often expressed strong views about Tony and Lou&#8217;s shop. It was a Bristol cult for many, many years during the dark ages and throughout the revival of skateboarding in the UK. There&#8217;s got to be a conscious irony about portraying themselves as pirates, I think. They were certainly fiercely independent and added spice to the whole business at a time when it was small enough for personality to really count.<br \/>\nThe Sports Unlimited advert is an example of what might happen when someone didn&#8217;t supply their advert copy in time, for whatever reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me this page is all about the Rollermania advert. Other UK shops and distributors often expressed strong views about Tony and Lou&#8217;s shop. It was a Bristol cult for many, many years during the dark ages and throughout the revival of skateboarding in the UK. There&#8217;s got to be a conscious irony about portraying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adverts","category-issue-82-december-1989"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","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=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}