{"id":21489,"date":"2011-02-11T13:50:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T21:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21489"},"modified":"2011-02-11T14:39:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T22:39:56","slug":"billabongs-burning-flip-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21489","title":{"rendered":"Billabong&#8217;s Burning Flip-Flops?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/jandal.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/jandal.jpg','popup','width=300,height=200,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\/2011\/02\/jandal-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Jandal\" \/><\/a><strong>Alice Walker<\/strong>, a woman in New Zealand, is saying that a pair of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> flips-flops burned the tops of her feet so badly that she could not walk, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/Billabong-investigating-burning-jandal-problem\/tabid\/420\/articleID\/198039\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">3news.co.nz<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt wasn&#8217;t when I was wearing them, it was afterwards I started feeling a burn in between my toes and then gradually over about three or four days the burns turned into great big welts in the shape of jandals.\u201d . . Ms Walker says she had been wearing them for about a month before the burns occurred. . . \u201cI think the coating around the actual foot part of the jandal had worn off and when it got down to the rubber, that&#8217;s when something happened.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The &#8220;jandals&#8221; are currently being tested by Billabong and Walker reportedly just wants to make sure the same thing &#8220;doesn&#8217;t happen to anyone else.&#8221; Be careful out there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/Billabong-investigating-burning-jandal-problem\/tabid\/420\/articleID\/198039\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">3news.co.nz<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Walker, a woman in New Zealand, is saying that a pair of Billabong flips-flops burned the tops of her feet so badly that she could not walk, according to a story on 3news.co.nz. \u201cIt wasn&#8217;t when I was wearing them, it was afterwards I started feeling a burn in between my toes and then [&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\/21489"}],"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=21489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21491,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21489\/revisions\/21491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}