{"id":11729,"date":"2009-11-19T08:01:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T16:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11729"},"modified":"2009-11-19T08:16:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T16:16:01","slug":"you-will-soons-unified-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11729","title":{"rendered":"You Will Soon&#8217;s Unified Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/SaintBerra.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/SaintBerra.jpg','popup','width=312,height=400,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\/11\/SaintBerra-tm.jpg\" height=\"256\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Saintberra\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/youwillsoon.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/unified-theory-of-bullshit.html?zx=581ccb168557ff77\" target=\"_blank\">You Will Soon<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Dan Watson<\/strong> lays down some of the realities behind <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theberrics.com\/dailyopspost.php?postid=1498\" target=\"_blank\">Berrics United <\/a><\/strong>and does it well in a post titled <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/youwillsoon.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/unified-theory-of-bullshit.html?zx=581ccb168557ff77\" target=\"_blank\">Unified Theory. . . Of Bullshit<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But what are the qualifications for a shop to be saved by the Unified Berrics? Is it the amount of work they&#8217;ve put into grassroots events? Is it proof that the owners actually skate? Is it a lifelong dedication to the culture of skateboarding? No it&#8217;s anywhere from 1440 to 5280 dollars. . . . Yes, as Exit Skateshop has pointed out via Twitter, what Berra forgot to mention was that the completely altruistic system that is the Unified Berrics is actually just a 12 month contract to have your skateshop advertised on The Berrics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And as a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11691#comments\" target=\"_blank\">commenter on Boardistan<\/a><\/strong> pointed out this morning that while Steve Berra says &#8220;there may be a war being waged&#8221; against small businesses by mall stores with &#8220;deep pockets and empty histories&#8221; The Berrics still <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/west49.com\/productDetail.jsp?ID=7309&amp;MODE=FEATUREDPRODUCTS&amp;cEnabled=true\" target=\"_blank\">sells product in the Canadian mall retailer West 49<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/youwillsoon.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/unified-theory-of-bullshit.html?zx=581ccb168557ff77\" target=\"_blank\">You Will Soon<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Will Soon&#8216;s Dan Watson lays down some of the realities behind Berrics United and does it well in a post titled Unified Theory. . . Of Bullshit. But what are the qualifications for a shop to be saved by the Unified Berrics? Is it the amount of work they&#8217;ve put into grassroots events? Is [&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":[16,3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729"}],"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=11729"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11734,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729\/revisions\/11734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}