{"id":24769,"date":"2011-08-12T14:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=24769"},"modified":"2011-08-12T14:03:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T21:03:21","slug":"new-york-city-urban-aloha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=24769","title":{"rendered":"New York City &#038; Urban Aloha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/surf_cup.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/surf_cup.jpg','popup','width=541,height=559,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\/08\/surf_cup-tm.jpg\" height=\"206\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Surf Cup\" \/><\/a>Writer <strong>Thad Ziolkowski<\/strong>, whose memoir <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wave-Thad-Ziolkowski\/dp\/0802140017\" target=\"_blank\">On a Wave<\/a><\/em><\/strong> reportedly tells the story of a &#8220;disenchanted, unemployed English professor&#8221; who goes surfing in Queens only to be reminded of his youth as a surfer in Florida, had a few words for the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/12\/opinion\/new-yorks-urban-aloha.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> today about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiksilver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quiksilver&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> upcoming <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/12\/opinion\/new-yorks-urban-aloha.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">New York Pro<\/a><\/strong> surf contest. <\/p>\n<p>In an editorial titled: <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/12\/opinion\/new-yorks-urban-aloha.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">New York&#8217;s Urban Aloha<\/a><\/em><\/strong> he had the following to say about a large West Coast fashion brand invading his personal peak.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imprinting the Quiksilver brand on New York\u2019s burgeoning surf scene makes perfect sense from a business perspective, but the corporate siren song threatens to sour the mood of surfing in New York, which for the moment remains a bastion of surf spirit. It\u2019s a spirit that companies like Quiksilver claim to value but have in fact helped degrade elsewhere, peddling a vision of surfing\u2019s blithe, blue allure that studiously omits the ugly realities of overcrowding that such marketing abets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Leave it to the <em>New York Times<\/em> and a writing professor to use 990 words to say: &#8220;locals only.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/12\/opinion\/new-yorks-urban-aloha.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer Thad Ziolkowski, whose memoir On a Wave reportedly tells the story of a &#8220;disenchanted, unemployed English professor&#8221; who goes surfing in Queens only to be reminded of his youth as a surfer in Florida, had a few words for the New York Times today about Quiksilver&#8217;s upcoming New York Pro surf contest. In an [&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":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24769"}],"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=24769"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24772,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24769\/revisions\/24772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}