{"id":12076,"date":"2009-12-03T09:44:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T17:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12076"},"modified":"2009-12-03T10:11:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T18:11:13","slug":"aussie-croats-call-for-billabong-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12076","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Croats Call For Billabong Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/billacroat.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/billacroat.jpg','popup','width=252,height=252,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\/12\/billacroat-tm.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Billacroat\" \/><\/a>A graphic from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> &#8220;comrade&#8221; T-shirt series is stirring up some trouble with a group of Australian Croats, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.javno.com\/en-world\/billabong-angers-croats-with-offesnive-t-shirts_284738\" target=\"_blank\">Javno.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The front of the disputed T-shirt contains emblem that combines the five-pointed star with what remarkably resembles the Croatian coat of arms. . . Behind the five-pointed star is a grain wreath that resembles the iconography which, in Croatia, is commonly associated with the communist Yugoslavia.   Behind a checkered coat of arms is an eagle wing, which after a brief observation, may be correlated with the eagle on the Serbian coat of arms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/serbcroat.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/serbcroat.jpg','popup','width=327,height=196,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\/12\/serbcroat-tm.jpg\" height=\"119\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Serbcroat\" \/><\/a><strong>Natalie Drazic<\/strong> a spokeswoman for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scy.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney&#8217;s Croatian Youth<\/a><\/strong> organization reportedly contacted Billabong but was not happy with the response she got from the company. &#8220;Natalie Drazic and the SCY management urged all Croats to boycott products made by the Billabong Company until further notice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A little controversy never seems to hurt T-shirt sales.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.javno.com\/en-world\/billabong-angers-croats-with-offesnive-t-shirts_284738\" target=\"_blank\">Javno.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A graphic from Billabong&#8217;s &#8220;comrade&#8221; T-shirt series is stirring up some trouble with a group of Australian Croats, according to a story on Javno.com. The front of the disputed T-shirt contains emblem that combines the five-pointed star with what remarkably resembles the Croatian coat of arms. . . Behind the five-pointed star is a grain [&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":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12076"}],"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=12076"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12083,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12076\/revisions\/12083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}