{"id":404,"date":"2009-03-04T15:52:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T14:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/?p=404"},"modified":"2009-05-06T15:51:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T14:51:06","slug":"intro-mark-findlay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/03\/04\/intro-mark-findlay\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro: Mark Findlay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/67\/rad-magazine-67-page-047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/67\/_rad-magazine-67-page-047.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Mark Findlay at Bowes Lyon House Stevenage\" title=\"Mark Findlay at Bowes Lyon House Stevenage\"  \/><\/a>Interesting to notice that Fids nominated Stevenage as his favourite ramp even though he came from Ramsgate. That&#8217;s a sign of the times: he had to travel into London and out the other side to skate it. <\/p>\n<p>His answer to the question &#8220;What would make skating better?&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;Better weather or more indoor ramps&#8221; touches on the same subject. We got the &#8220;more indoor ramps&#8221;, though never enough of them. The weather did not get better. Quite the reverse. This has been one of the wettest winters in a while.<\/p>\n<p>And the thought I like best? &#8220;Carter doing McTwists&#8221; it makes me smile even now.<\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/08\/04\/classic-skateboarding-steve-caballero-stevenage-skatepark-july-1988\/\">Bowes Lyon Skatepark in Stevenage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting to notice that Fids nominated Stevenage as his favourite ramp even though he came from Ramsgate. That&#8217;s a sign of the times: he had to travel into London and out the other side to skate it. His answer to the question &#8220;What would make skating better?&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;Better weather or more indoor ramps&#8221; touches [&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":[65,38,44],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-67-september-1988","tag-interviews","tag-skateparks","tag-stevenage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","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=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}