{"id":61,"date":"2007-05-28T22:54:12","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T05:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2007-05-28T22:54:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T05:54:20","slug":"t-hawk-spends-week-in-bakersfield-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"T. Hawk Spends Week In Bakersfield One Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/249-tony-hawk-3.embedded.prod-affiliate.25.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/249-tony-hawk-3.embedded.prod-affiliate.25.jpg','popup','width=318,height=226,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/249-tony-hawk-3.embedded.prod-affiliate.25-tm.jpg\" height=\"142\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"249-Tony Hawk 3.Embedded.Prod Affiliate.25\" \/><\/a>While we were at the beach celebrating Memorial Day (and hoping the Frenchmen with the volleyballs and Frisbees didn&#8217;t hit us), Carlsbad&#8217;s number one action sports icon <strong>Tony Hawk<\/strong> was in Bakersfield, California with <strong>Bucky Lasek<\/strong> and <strong>Bob Burnquist<\/strong> putting on a demo for the opening of a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportchalet.com\/home\/index.jsp\">Sports Chalet<\/a><\/strong> at the corner of Stockdale Highway and California Avenue. As the local reporter said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It could have been a rock concert, with the screaming fans and lines of anxious autograph-seekers. But instead of a stage, the main attraction was a halfpipe. In place of the microphone, the talent was adorned with helmets and knee pads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reminds us a little of the <strong><em>King of The Hill<\/em><\/strong> episode 2.23 when <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mega_Lo_Mart\">Chuck Mangione appeared at the grand opening of the new Arlen Mega Lo Mart<\/a><\/strong>. Only we&#8217;re guessing the Bakersfield Sports Chalet didn&#8217;t blow up. <\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bakersfield.com\/102\/story\/150962.html\">Bakersfield.com<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we were at the beach celebrating Memorial Day (and hoping the Frenchmen with the volleyballs and Frisbees didn&#8217;t hit us), Carlsbad&#8217;s number one action sports icon Tony Hawk was in Bakersfield, California with Bucky Lasek and Bob Burnquist putting on a demo for the opening of a Sports Chalet at the corner of Stockdale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}