{"id":9600,"date":"2016-11-04T11:17:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T03:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=9600"},"modified":"2022-03-30T14:52:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T06:52:04","slug":"skateboarding-olympic-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2016\/11\/skateboarding-olympic-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Cool for the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Skaters fear loss of freestyle street culture as skateboarding becomes official sport<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>by Maggie Suen, Verena Tse &amp; Lynette Zhang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P.52-60_Skateboarding_Layout_300ppi.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-9606\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/skateboard-1024x674.jpg\" alt=\"skateboard\" width=\"610\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/skateboard-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/skateboard-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/skateboard-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/skateboard-696x458.jpg 696w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/skateboard-1068x703.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/skateboard-638x420.jpg 638w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/skateboard-1920x1264.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skateboarding is set to become an official Olympic sport at the Tokyo games in 2020 but skaters are ambivalent about the development &#8211; they&#8217;re worried this will hurt skateboarding&#8217;s freestyle street culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1807,72],"tags":[508,507,69],"class_list":["post-9600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-141","category-photo-feature","tag-olympics","tag-skateboarding","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9600"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9982,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9600\/revisions\/9982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}