{"id":19825,"date":"2010-11-22T15:18:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T23:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19825"},"modified":"2010-11-23T05:22:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T13:22:52","slug":"spike-jonze-buys-way-out-of-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19825","title":{"rendered":"The Smith &#038; Wallace Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/spike_jonze-300x300.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/spike_jonze-300x300.jpg','popup','width=300,height=300,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\/11\/spike_jonze-300x300-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Spike Jonze--300X300\" \/><\/a>While on the road with <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viceland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vice<\/a><\/em><\/strong> co-founded <strong>Shane Smith<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlskateboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Girl Skateboards&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><strong> Spike Jonze<\/strong> was &#8220;detained&#8221; in Yemen until the two could come up with the money to be released, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/pagesix\/spike_jonze_series_shane_smith_detained_Tlc4EyXvmV1tpHO1YmaduI\" target=\"_blank\">New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . while filming their search for al Qaeda for an <strong>MTV<\/strong> investigative series that premieres Dec. 6 &#8212; &#8220;<strong>The Vice Guide to Everything<\/strong>.&#8221; They avoided jail and retrieved their footage with an $8,000 political bribe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Compared to some of the location fees paid for the last Jackass movie $8,000 is pretty cheap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/pagesix\/spike_jonze_series_shane_smith_detained_Tlc4EyXvmV1tpHO1YmaduI\" target=\"_blank\">NY Post<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on the road with Vice co-founded Shane Smith, Girl Skateboards&#8217; Spike Jonze was &#8220;detained&#8221; in Yemen until the two could come up with the money to be released, according to a story in the New York Post. . . . while filming their search for al Qaeda for an MTV investigative series that premieres [&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\/19825"}],"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=19825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19866,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19825\/revisions\/19866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}