{"id":2556,"date":"2008-11-19T07:26:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T15:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2008-11-19T07:30:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T15:30:10","slug":"burlington-city-council-requests-burton-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2556","title":{"rendered":"Burlington City Council Requests Burton Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/burton-love-1-tm.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/burton-love-1-tm.jpg','popup','width=430,height=348,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\/burton-love-1-tm-tm.jpg\" height=\"161\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Burton-Love-1-Tm\" \/><\/a>We keep thinking that the whole<strong> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=burton+love\" target=\"_blank\">Burton Love story<\/a><\/strong> finally over, but then some new twist turns up.<\/p>\n<p>For instance: the Burlington, Vermont city council on Monday night voted 12-1 on a resolution requesting that the <strong>Burton Corporation<\/strong> meet with local activists regarding the Love and Primo lines of snowboards, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2008811190312\" target=\"_blank\">Burlington Free Press<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The resolution, a softer version of one originally proposed, doesn&#8217;t force Burton to take any action, but rather encourages the Burlington-based company to listen to the concerns of community organizations that say the boards promote self-harm and misogyny.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rougher resolution apparently called for the company to stop producing the boards. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2008811190312\" target=\"_blank\">Burlington Free Press<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We keep thinking that the whole Burton Love story finally over, but then some new twist turns up. For instance: the Burlington, Vermont city council on Monday night voted 12-1 on a resolution requesting that the Burton Corporation meet with local activists regarding the Love and Primo lines of snowboards, according to a story in [&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":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556"}],"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=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}