{"id":4378,"date":"2013-06-07T11:01:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T21:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2013-06-07T11:09:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T21:09:57","slug":"long-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/long-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m really tempted to get one of these DTWO<\/a> longboards, if only for the fact that I think they’re gorgeous to look at. I seriously haven’t been on anything with skate wheels (do they even call them that anymore) in close to 3 decades but these really look good to me. Heck if I can’t skate them maybe they’ll look good on my wall somewhere?<\/p>\n

These are a far cry from the homemade board my dad made for me back in the day. For all his best intentions, he crafted me a death board. The deck itself was fine…I think he shaped a piece of plywood, sanded it down, painted it with racing stripes. But then he put regular roller skate trucks & wheels on them. For the life of me I didn’t understand why the other neighborhood kids could glide their board safely and smoothly down the concrete path while I kept face-planting on the concrete every time the wheels bit into a small piece of gravel and made me come to an abrupt halt. I must have had bloody lips and concussions every weekend. Helmets and elbow pads? What’s THAT, this is the 80’s!?<\/p>\n

Oh the fond memories. \u00a0I should get my dad to buy me one of these as penance. (via Bless This Stuff<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m really tempted to get one of these DTWO longboards, if only for the fact that I think they’re gorgeous to look at. I seriously haven’t been on anything with skate wheels (do they even call them that anymore) in close to 3 decades but these really look good to me. Heck if I can’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,56,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration-2","category-personal","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4382,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions\/4382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}