{"id":33727,"date":"2018-03-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/home\/boarders-vs-bureaucracy\/"},"modified":"2018-03-23T09:52:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T16:52:19","slug":"boarders-vs-bureaucracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/boarders-vs-bureaucracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Boarders vs. bureaucracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skateboarding continues to grow in popularity in the Pacific Northwest. But it&rsquo;s still difficult for skateboarders to find a good, safe place to get together and do their thing. Rain is a big problem, and covered skate parks are few and far between. Recently, a group of skaters in Renton took matters into their own hands and, using 50,000 pounds of cement, built a park under a freeway overpass. This was, of course, illegal. The Washington Department of Transportation threatened to tear it down last fall, but a crowd of skaters from across the region showed up to defend it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rentonreporter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Renton Reporter<\/em><\/a> staff writer Leah Abraham set off to figure out just why one park could mean so much to so many people&mdash;and discovered a whole world in the process.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/zu7x9-8dcb7a?from=site&#038;skin=1&#038;share=1&#038;fonts=Helvetica&#038;auto=0&#038;download=0\" height=\"100\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Featuring interviews with Leah Abraham, Jack Skeel, Kristin Ebeling, Marshall Reid, and David Waite<\/p>\n<p>Music by <a href=\"http:\/\/promqueenmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leeni Ramadan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/jahzzar.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jahzzar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This week&rsquo;s cover photo is a shot of Longacres Skate Park, taken by Leah Abraham for the <\/em>Renton Reporter<em> in late November 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a common need for dry land, an unconventional perspective on property rights, and 25 tons of cement brought a community of skateboarders together in Renton. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":33729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,24,35],"tags":[33],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-northwest","category-podcasts","tag-seattleland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33727"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}