{"id":2175,"date":"2008-10-20T10:06:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T17:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2008-10-20T10:08:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T17:08:43","slug":"paradise-surf-shop-bought-on-craiglist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2175","title":{"rendered":"Paradise Surf Shop Bought On Craiglist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/20081017-20081017-business0201-gallery.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/20081017-20081017-business0201-gallery.jpg','popup','width=400,height=267,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\/10\/20081017-20081017-business0201-gallery-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"20081017  20081017 Business02~01 Gallery\" \/><\/a>Santa Cruz, California&#8217;s woman-owned shop <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradisesurf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paradise Surf Shop<\/a><\/strong> has a new owner according to a story in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/business\/ci_10744132\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Sentinel<\/a><\/strong>. <strong>Anna Macken<\/strong>, 26, saw a post on <strong>Craigslist<\/strong> and bought the shop.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have always known that I wasn&#8217;t interested in pursuing a high-powered career in, say, the financial district,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I was wondering which direction to take my life in, I knew I wanted to be able to surf and hang out with my son after he gets out of school and I came across a posting for the shop and pursued it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Macken is a single mom with a 6-year-old son and a degree from Mills college. According to the story she is currently working on a master&#8217;s in business administration there. There&#8217;s nothing like running a surf shop to introduce people to the realities of retail; especially in these times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/business\/ci_10744132\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Sentinel<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Cruz, California&#8217;s woman-owned shop Paradise Surf Shop has a new owner according to a story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Anna Macken, 26, saw a post on Craigslist and bought the shop. &#8220;I have always known that I wasn&#8217;t interested in pursuing a high-powered career in, say, the financial district,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I was [&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\/2175"}],"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=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}