{"id":1451,"date":"2008-08-22T08:31:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T15:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2008-08-22T08:35:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T15:35:50","slug":"ron-jon-pulls-name-from-surf-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"Ron Jon Pulls Name From Surf Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/surfparks.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/surfparks.jpg','popup','width=318,height=77,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\/2008\/08\/surfparks-tm.jpg\" height=\"48\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Surfparks\" \/><\/a><strong>Jamie Meiselman<\/strong>, the founder and CEO of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfparks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfparks, LLC<\/a><\/strong> has been planning to build the world&#8217;s best artificial wave park for nearly a decade. But now his best hope for realizing that dream, the <strong>Ron Jon Surfpark<\/strong> at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopfestivalbaymall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Festival Bay Mall<\/a><\/strong> in Orlando, Florida, has run up on a dry reef according to a story in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/orange\/orl-surfpark2108aug22,0,769441.story\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Sentinel<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to repeated delays (the project was announced four years ago) &#8220;the Cocoa-based <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronjonsurfpark.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Jon Surf Shop<\/a><\/strong> has pulled its name from the project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We had some flaws in the technology and invested quite a bit of money in fixing that,&#8221; said Jamie Meiselman, founder and chief executive officer of the company behind the project, which calls itself Surfparks LLC. &#8220;The good news is we were able to solve the problems; the bad news is it came at a cost.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the story, the $9 million that Surfparks, LLC raised to build the project has already spent on &#8220;unexpected research and development.&#8221; Wow. That&#8217;s a lot of research.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/orange\/orl-surfpark2108aug22,0,769441.story\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Sentinel<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Meiselman, the founder and CEO of Surfparks, LLC has been planning to build the world&#8217;s best artificial wave park for nearly a decade. But now his best hope for realizing that dream, the Ron Jon Surfpark at the Festival Bay Mall in Orlando, Florida, has run up on a dry reef according to a [&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":[16,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451"}],"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=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}