{"id":18719,"date":"2010-10-09T07:14:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T14:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18719"},"modified":"2010-10-09T20:33:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T03:33:19","slug":"flipping-off-billabong-element","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18719","title":{"rendered":"Flipping Off Billabong &#038; Element"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/notforsale-650final.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/notforsale-650final.jpg','popup','width=650,height=750,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\/notforsale-650final-tm.jpg\" height=\"496\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Notforsale-650Final\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A subtle yet effective response from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/flipskateboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flip Skateboards<\/a><\/strong>  regarding <strong>Mark Appleyard&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18686\" target=\"_blank\">move to Element.<\/a><\/strong> . . we assume.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, it appears that both <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcom.com\/team\/team_rider_detail.asp?TeamID=2&amp;riderID=12&amp;SectionId=1\" target=\"_blank\">Geoff Rowley<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcom.com\/team\/team_rider_detail.asp?TeamID=2&amp;riderID=229&amp;SectionId=1\" target=\"_blank\">David Gonzalez<\/a><\/strong> forgot (at least for a moment) that they are both sponsored by the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcom.com\/team\/team_rider_detail.asp?TeamID=2&amp;riderID=13\" target=\"_blank\">same publicly traded clothing company<\/a><\/strong> (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volcom<\/a><\/strong>) that Apples rides for? Maybe that&#8217;s why <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/flipskateboards.com\/2010\/10\/message-from-the-flip-family\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post is no longer on the Flip site<\/a><\/strong>. Or maybe it was all one big joke.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theskateboardmag.com\/blogs\/templeton-elliott\/2010\/10\/08\/flip-gives-the-finger\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Skateboard Mag<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A subtle yet effective response from Flip Skateboards regarding Mark Appleyard&#8217;s move to Element. . . we assume. Ironically, it appears that both Geoff Rowley and David Gonzalez forgot (at least for a moment) that they are both sponsored by the same publicly traded clothing company (Volcom) that Apples rides for? Maybe that&#8217;s why this [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18719"}],"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=18719"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18728,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18719\/revisions\/18728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}