{"id":10734,"date":"2009-09-22T10:20:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T17:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10734"},"modified":"2009-09-22T11:12:06","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T18:12:06","slug":"tony-hawk-talks-business-with-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10734","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hawk Talks Business With Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/tony-hawk.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/tony-hawk.jpg','popup','width=470,height=258,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.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/tony-hawk-tm.jpg\" height=\"236\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Tony-Hawk\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seems like the &#8220;skateboarder as businessman&#8221; angle on <strong>Tony Hawk<\/strong> is getting pretty dusty, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/magazine\/entrepreneur\/2009\/october\/203408.html\" target=\"_blank\">Entrepreneur Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong> from using the hook to discuss Tony&#8217;s newest video game (and controller) <strong><em>Tony Hawk Ride<\/em><\/strong> which comes out November 17, 2009 just in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>How does he feel about the launch?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m scared to death about it because I know how much is riding on it, how much Activision has invested in it. I brought this idea to them, and they\u2019ve dedicated two years of development and research, but who knows how it\u2019ll do? It\u2019s a scary prospect. But I know it\u2019s good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click the link for the rest of the interview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/magazine\/entrepreneur\/2009\/october\/203408.html\" target=\"_blank\">Entrepreneur<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like the &#8220;skateboarder as businessman&#8221; angle on Tony Hawk is getting pretty dusty, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped Entrepreneur Magazine from using the hook to discuss Tony&#8217;s newest video game (and controller) Tony Hawk Ride which comes out November 17, 2009 just in time for Christmas. How does he feel about the launch? I\u2019m scared [&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":[15,3,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10734"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10745,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734\/revisions\/10745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}