{"id":336,"date":"2008-04-28T08:56:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T07:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/?p=336"},"modified":"2008-05-01T09:01:53","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T08:01:53","slug":"livingston-fun-day-septmber-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/04\/28\/livingston-fun-day-septmber-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Livingston Fun Day September 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/67\/rad-magazine-67-page-016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/67\/_rad-magazine-67-page-016.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Five skaters in Livingston bowl\" title=\"Five skaters in Livingston bowl\"  \/><\/a>I was talking about Livingston at the &#8220;goodbye to Harrow Day&#8221; last week. With Harrow and Southsea under threat we&#8217;re heading towards a situation where Livingston will be one of the oldest skateparks in Britain (I hope Rom&#8217;s still OK). At the time this story was written, though, I still thought of it as &#8220;new&#8221; and &#8220;state of the art&#8221; &#8212; even though this competition was staged to celebrate the first re-surfacing and the first of the improvements, in the form of coping.<\/p>\n<p>People came from far and wide to celebrate the re-opening. I can certainly see Brighton represented by one of the five, yes five, people in the opening shot of the new bowl\/pool at the bottom of this page.<\/p>\n<p>Livingston was the greatest of British parks at this time because it had been designed and built with care <em>after<\/em> the early mistakes and just <em>before<\/em> the idea of building any facilities for skateboarding would have seemed a waste of money. In fact for decades Scotland probably had the greatest park in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking about Livingston at the &#8220;goodbye to Harrow Day&#8221; last week. With Harrow and Southsea under threat we&#8217;re heading towards a situation where Livingston will be one of the oldest skateparks in Britain (I hope Rom&#8217;s still OK). At the time this story was written, though, I still thought of it as &#8220;new&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[39,38],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-67-september-1988","tag-livingston","tag-skateparks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","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=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}