{"id":2204,"date":"2008-10-23T20:52:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T03:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2008-10-23T21:30:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T04:30:14","slug":"primo-love-protest-at-burton-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2204","title":{"rendered":"Primo Love Protest At Burton Offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bilde.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bilde.jpeg','popup','width=318,height=155,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\/bilde-tm.jpg\" height=\"97\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bilde\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?s=burton+love\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a><\/strong> just keeps getting funnier. Today approximately 100 people reportedly gathered at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burton Snowboard&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> offices in Burlington, Vermont to &#8220;demand that the two lines of snowboards be pulled from the market,&#8221; according to a story on <strong>Fox News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Women&#8217;s groups and a group of men working against domestic violence have joined a growing chorus of criticism directed at the snowboards. . . . Two community groups have withdrawn their participation in a Burton-sponsored program to introduce disadvantaged kids to snowboarding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Burton CEO <strong>Laurent Potdevin<\/strong> even <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20081023\/NEWS\/81023001\/-1\/NEWS05\" target=\"_blank\">released a statement<\/a><\/strong> to <strong><em>The Burlington Free Press<\/em><\/strong> saying that Burton &#8220;stands behind it&#8217;s products and has no plans to recall the Love and Primo models that have caused anger in portions of the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And why would they after all this free promo?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,443810,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neurell.com\/protest.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Burton Protest<\/a><\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20081023\/NEWS\/81023001\/-1\/NEWS05\" target=\"_blank\">The Burlington Free Press<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just keeps getting funnier. Today approximately 100 people reportedly gathered at Burton Snowboard&#8217;s offices in Burlington, Vermont to &#8220;demand that the two lines of snowboards be pulled from the market,&#8221; according to a story on Fox News. Women&#8217;s groups and a group of men working against domestic violence have joined a growing chorus of [&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":[11,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204"}],"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=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}