{"id":345,"date":"2008-06-19T18:14:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T17:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/?p=345"},"modified":"2008-06-19T18:16:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T17:16:16","slug":"tommy-guerrero-lance-mountain-at-southsea-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/06\/19\/tommy-guerrero-lance-mountain-at-southsea-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Guerrero at Southsea and Lance Mountain at Meanwhile  1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/67\/rad-magazine-67-page-022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/67\/_rad-magazine-67-page-022.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Tommy Guerrero and Lance Mountain at Southsea Skatepark in 1988\" title=\"Tommy Guerrero and Lance Mountain at Southsea Skatepark in 1988\"  \/><\/a>At the time of writing, Southsea Skatepark is under threat and there is a petition to save it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/petitions.pm.gov.uk\/save-southsea\/\">http:\/\/petitions.pm.gov.uk\/save-southsea\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pictures come from a happier time, with the park under the supervision of John Thurston and and visited by all manner of legends, as we see here.<\/p>\n<p>This was the opening page of an 11 page feature on the Powell Tour. At the time those tours were hugely important. They brought some extremely rad skating to the UK when there were no international competitions or other events to attract hordes of top skaters. <\/p>\n<p>Tours like this one provided the only chance for most people to see skating at this level and were the focus for a vast amount of energy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Captions:<br \/>\nTommy Guerrero: at Southsea he got down and skated. Ollie (huge) to (tweaked) Slob off the launch ramp.<br \/>\nLance Mountain: different &#8212; Stalefish Boneless at Meanwhile<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Lance Mountain picture was by Dobie.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southseaskatepark.com\/\">unofficial Southsea Skatepark site<\/a> and a page about the skatepark on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portsmouth.gov.uk\/living\/838.html\">Portsmouth Council<\/a> site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the time of writing, Southsea Skatepark is under threat and there is a petition to save it here: http:\/\/petitions.pm.gov.uk\/save-southsea\/ The pictures come from a happier time, with the park under the supervision of John Thurston and and visited by all manner of legends, as we see here. This was the opening page of an [&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":[20,38,42],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-67-september-1988","tag-dobie","tag-skateparks","tag-southsea-skatepark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}