{"id":287,"date":"2007-05-27T09:34:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T08:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/05\/27\/warren-brown-city-of-london-march-1991\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T18:10:24","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T17:10:24","slug":"warren-brown-city-of-london-march-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/05\/27\/warren-brown-city-of-london-march-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Brown, City of London, March 1991"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/96\/rad96_32-33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/96\/_rad96_32-33.jpg\" width=\"177\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Warren Brown Skating in the City of London 1991\" title=\"Warren Brown Skating in the City of London 1991\"  \/><\/a>Centre spread picture (these mattered in the days when they could be pulled from magazines and stuck on the wall) of Warren Brown by Jay Podesta.<\/p>\n<p>This was a golden age before the skateboard potential of the City of London had really been recognised. As its popularity grew, so did the busts. Perhaps somebody can remind us when the specific bye-laws against skating were introduced and when they started to really be enforced?<br \/>\nThere was always a balance to be struck between showing rad spots and attracting too much attention to them. In the case of the City we came down on the side of giving it less prominence than it deserved. Such discretion was wasted, of course: the outcome was inevitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre spread picture (these mattered in the days when they could be pulled from magazines and stuck on the wall) of Warren Brown by Jay Podesta. This was a golden age before the skateboard potential of the City of London had really been recognised. As its popularity grew, so did the busts. Perhaps somebody can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-96-may-1991"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","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=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}