{"id":365,"date":"2008-11-01T16:52:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T15:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/?p=365"},"modified":"2008-11-01T16:52:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T15:52:17","slug":"guide-to-uk-skateboard-spots-as-they-were-in-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/11\/01\/guide-to-uk-skateboard-spots-as-they-were-in-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to UK skateboard spots, as they were in 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/67\/rad-magazine-67-page-036.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/67\/_rad-magazine-67-page-036.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"250\" class=\"alingleft\" alt=\"Where to skateboard in Britain, 1988 style\" title=\"Where to skateboard in Britain, 1988 style\"  \/><\/a>This is the one part of R.a.D Magazine which lives on as more than just a memory. It moved on line in 1994 and can still be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowhere.co.uk\">www.knowhere.co.uk<\/a> although the content is very different now.<\/p>\n<p>I see from the introduction that we introduced a new rating system with this issue of the magazine. There&#8217;s a wistful tone to the observation that few people would expect to travel more than 10 or 20 miles to skate, and that no ditch could ever rate 5 stars. In the old days (the old days <em>then<\/em>) some of us used to travel from one end of the country to another in order skate something like Monk&#8217;s Ditch. Or, more to the point, to skate with other people at Monk&#8217;s Ditch.<\/p>\n<p>What would the skaters of 1988 have made of the situation 20 years later? What would the skaters of 1980 have made of it? I think only the skaters of 1978 would have dared imagine a world of mini-parks all over the place and mega parks dotting the land. We got what we longed for. How does it feel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the one part of R.a.D Magazine which lives on as more than just a memory. It moved on line in 1994 and can still be found at www.knowhere.co.uk although the content is very different now. I see from the introduction that we introduced a new rating system with this issue of the magazine. [&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":[53],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-67-september-1988","tag-skate-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","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=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}