{"id":2573,"date":"2008-11-19T10:39:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T18:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2008-11-20T16:54:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T00:54:08","slug":"grenade-problems-at-denver-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2573","title":{"rendered":"Grenade Problems At Denver High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/article-2520.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/article-2520.jpeg','popup','width=352,height=234,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\/article-2520-tm.jpg\" height=\"132\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Article 2520\" \/><\/a>Administrators at Denver&#8217;s <strong>Brighton High School<\/strong> decided that the <strong>Grenade Gloves<\/strong> stickers they were seeing on student&#8217;s cars were promoting &#8220;terrorism and violence&#8221; and required that students remove the stickers immediately.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senior <strong>Ryan McKim<\/strong> said he and at least five other students were asked by school assistant principal <strong>Michael Stoffler<\/strong> to either remove their Grenade Gloves-brand stickers from their cars, or face disciplinary action if they are to park in the student lot. Students pay $40 per year to park in the lot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After calling around, the misguided vice-principal reversed the decision after getting the the straight story from the PR professionals at Grenade.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Hillary Hutcheson<\/strong>, spokeswoman for Portland, Ore.-based Grenade snowboarding apparel, said the purpose of the grenade is simply to inspire people to be \u201cexplosive at whatever it is they do.\u201d. . .\u201cOur motto is, \u2018Make gloves, not war,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s about just being explosive in life, going for it, and going big.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She also mentioned that Grenade co-founder <strong>Danny Kass<\/strong> had recently completed &#8220;a tour of military facilities in Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Part of the company\u2019s purpose is to connect students with \u201cmissions,\u201d such as getting good grades, designing a Grenade logo, and sending in their best snowboard trick, to name a few.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just last week we watched an entire season of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/the-adventures-of-danny-and-the-dingo\" target=\"_blank\">Danny and the Dingo<\/a><\/strong> and didn&#8217;t once hear anything about any &#8220;getting good grade missions.&#8221; Though we did learn a valuable lesson about the dangers of passing out drunk on the trunk of a moving car.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody give Hillary a raise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverdailynews.com\/article.php?aID=2520\" target=\"_blank\">The Denver Daily<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Administrators at Denver&#8217;s Brighton High School decided that the Grenade Gloves stickers they were seeing on student&#8217;s cars were promoting &#8220;terrorism and violence&#8221; and required that students remove the stickers immediately. Senior Ryan McKim said he and at least five other students were asked by school assistant principal Michael Stoffler to either remove their Grenade [&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":[10,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573"}],"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=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}