{"id":18686,"date":"2010-10-08T10:04:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T17:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18686"},"modified":"2010-10-08T12:14:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T19:14:40","slug":"earth-wind-water-fire-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18686","title":{"rendered":"Earth, Wind, Water, Fire &#038; Apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ele-markappleyard-welcome-1000x653.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ele-markappleyard-welcome-1000x653.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=653,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\/2010\/10\/ele-markappleyard-welcome-1000x653-tm.jpg\" height=\"280\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ele-Markappleyard-Welcome-1000X653\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Appleyard<\/strong> is now representing <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elementskateboards.com\/team\/\" target=\"_blank\">Element Skateboards<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/skateboarding.transworld.net\/author\/kevinduffel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transworld Skateboarding&#8217;s<\/a><\/em><\/strong> <strong>Kevin Duffel<\/strong> has the complete interview on how it all went down, including why he left <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/flipskateboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flip<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was over it [laughs],&#8221; Appleyard said. &#8220;I feel like I grew out of it and the team changed so much over the years that I was just like, \u201cthis shit ain\u2019t for me anymore,\u201d and I just needed to feel more stoked on the company I ride for, so I had to change it up. . . Yeah it was hard to leave, but it\u2019s a business move. Ya know? If someone\u2019s gonna be your friend, it shouldn\u2019t depend on what company you ride for. I just had to make a power move to benefit myself. I\u2019m really stoked on the choice I made. It was difficult but it had to be done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chalk up another win for the <a href=http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/><b>Billabong Corporation<\/b><\/a>. Click the link for the entire interview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skateboarding.transworld.net\/1000123827\/features\/newshit-interview-mark-appleyard-on-element\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transworld Skateboarding<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Appleyard is now representing Element Skateboards and Transworld Skateboarding&#8217;s Kevin Duffel has the complete interview on how it all went down, including why he left Flip. I was over it [laughs],&#8221; Appleyard said. &#8220;I feel like I grew out of it and the team changed so much over the years that I was just [&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":[3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18686"}],"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=18686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18707,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18686\/revisions\/18707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}