{"id":358,"date":"2008-08-23T14:57:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T13:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/?p=358"},"modified":"2008-08-26T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T09:43:15","slug":"powell-skate-tour-southsea-and-romford-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/08\/23\/powell-skate-tour-southsea-and-romford-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Powell skate tour, Southsea and Romford, 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/67\/rad-magazine-67-page-031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/67\/_rad-magazine-67-page-031.jpg\" width=\"174\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Lance Mountain, Southsea Skatepark 1988\" title=\"Lance Mountain, Southsea Skatepark 1988\"\/><\/a>Oh dear: I never could bring myself to cut down the words. So here we have a page almost solid with text. It&#8217;s all here: references to Lance Mountain&#8217;s South London connections (his grandmother and skating at the Mad Dog Bowl with Seth Parker), sly digs at request for &#8220;professional&#8221; bank tricks, and endless trick lists.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no way I&#8217;m going to type all that for the second time round. Sorry.<br \/>\nI believed these tours were hugely important at the time and so we gave them vast amounts of space. Times have changed now and skating is in a different world where such things no longer stand out as exceptional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear: I never could bring myself to cut down the words. So here we have a page almost solid with text. It&#8217;s all here: references to Lance Mountain&#8217;s South London connections (his grandmother and skating at the Mad Dog Bowl with Seth Parker), sly digs at request for &#8220;professional&#8221; bank tricks, and endless trick [&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":[50,49,48],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-67-september-1988","tag-romford","tag-southsea","tag-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","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=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}