{"id":659556,"date":"2026-05-10T04:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/659556\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T04:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:53:12","slug":"iconic-east-vancouver-skatepark-set-to-get-much-needed-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/659556\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic East Vancouver skatepark set to get much needed upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6 hours ago<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 1:37<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">A beloved East Vancouver skatepark is set to receive some much needed upgrades. This week, city council unanimously passed a motion to resurface the Hastings Skatepark. As the CBC&#8217;s Janella Hamilton reports, it comes after local skaters raised concerns about the park&#8217;s temporary closure during the FIFA World Cup this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"6 hours agoNewsDuration 1:37 A beloved East Vancouver skatepark is set to receive some much needed upgrades. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-659556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}