{"id":2367,"date":"2008-11-06T08:18:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T15:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2008-11-06T08:18:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T15:18:51","slug":"the-school-of-skateboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2367","title":{"rendered":"The School of Skateboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/539w.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/539w.jpg','popup','width=539,height=359,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\/11\/539w-tm.jpg\" height=\"286\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"539W\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Polianites<\/strong>, the 19-year-old owner of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/boardwalkboston.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boardwalk Skate Shop<\/a><\/strong> in Boston&#8217;s <strong>Burlington Mall<\/strong> has a optimistic take on the current economic downturn, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2008\/11\/06\/getting_a_jump_on_the_business_world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Globe<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The recession isn&#8217;t stopping people from skateboarding,&#8221; Polianites, a sophomore at <strong>Suffolk University Sawyer Business School<\/strong>, said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Polianites, who opened the shop after the skateboard mall kiosk he worked in closed, decided he didn&#8217;t want to be poor college student. He wanted to &#8220;graduate with a store franchise, not a heap of credit-card debt.&#8221; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You try a trick, you fall, you get back up,&#8221; Polianites said. &#8220;With skateboarding, everything you do is a risk. Same as in the business world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2008\/11\/06\/getting_a_jump_on_the_business_world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Polianites, the 19-year-old owner of the Boardwalk Skate Shop in Boston&#8217;s Burlington Mall has a optimistic take on the current economic downturn, according to a story in the Boston Globe. &#8220;The recession isn&#8217;t stopping people from skateboarding,&#8221; Polianites, a sophomore at Suffolk University Sawyer Business School, said. Polianites, who opened the shop after the [&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":[16,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367"}],"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=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}