{"id":11908,"date":"2009-11-24T15:10:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T23:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11908"},"modified":"2009-11-25T04:44:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T12:44:42","slug":"skatebook-in-seventeen-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11908","title":{"rendered":"Skatebook In Seventeen Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/miley-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/miley-1.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=714,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\/miley-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"307\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Miley-1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t seen an issue of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skatebook.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skatebook<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in quite some time, but apparently the editors of the teen girl magazine <strong><em>Seventeen<\/em><\/strong> have. That must be why they put the $15 book-a-zine in their special feature on &#8220;Gifts For Guys.&#8221; And <strong>Michael Ballard<\/strong> is so proud of it that he sent out the following press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When one finds themselves in a particularly awkward position the best solution is simply to bust yourself, right. Tell everyone before your problem is the focus of people&#8217;s hate on the message boards. . . . So before I answer any more email about what a sell out we are, I just want to say it is a surprise to us too. I guess we should be mad; our cool factor has been given a black eye. But then again Seventeen has a circ of nearly 2 million, maybe we should start taking lipstick and hair gel advertisements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, Mr. Ballard doesn&#8217;t know that there is no such thing as bad PR.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skatebook.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skatebook.tv<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We haven&#8217;t seen an issue of Skatebook in quite some time, but apparently the editors of the teen girl magazine Seventeen have. That must be why they put the $15 book-a-zine in their special feature on &#8220;Gifts For Guys.&#8221; And Michael Ballard is so proud of it that he sent out the following press release: [&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":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908"}],"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=11908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11915,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908\/revisions\/11915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}