{"id":6233,"date":"2010-11-10T11:43:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T18:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=6233"},"modified":"2010-11-10T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T18:44:07","slug":"skateistan-to-live-and-skate-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=6233","title":{"rendered":"Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“\u2026 this beautifully shot film follows the lives of a group of young skateboarders in Afghanistan. Operating against the backdrop of war and bleak prospects, the Skateistan<\/strong> charity project is the world\u2019s first co-educational skateboarding school, where a team of international volunteers work with girls and boys between the ages of 5 and 17, an age group largely untouched by other aid programmes.”<\/p>\n

Take 9 minutes and watch this incredible short film from\u00a0Diesel New Voices<\/a>. (viaTim Nolan<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u2022 \u00a0 \u2022 \u2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“\u2026 this beautifully shot film follows the lives of a group of young skateboarders in Afghanistan. Operating against the backdrop of war and bleak prospects, the Skateistan charity project is the world\u2019s first co-educational skateboarding school, where a team of international volunteers work with girls and boys between the ages of 5 and 17, an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2438,2437,2427,59,228,2428],"class_list":["post-6233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-afghanistan","tag-diesel-new-voices","tag-kabul","tag-movie","tag-skateboard","tag-skateistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6249,"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions\/6249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}