{"id":2932,"date":"2008-12-04T09:19:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T17:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2008-12-12T17:31:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T01:31:20","slug":"etnies-brings-christmas-to-downtrodden-adidas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2932","title":{"rendered":"Etnies Brings Christmas To Downtrodden Adidas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/soletech-willamette.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/soletech-willamette.jpg','popup','width=430,height=546,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\/12\/soletech-willamette-tm.jpg\" height=\"253\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Soletech Willamette\" \/><\/a>After <strong>Adidas<\/strong> Group Chairman <strong>Herbert Hainer<\/strong> emailed his 31,000 employees to let them know that the footwear giant would be skipping their $6.5 million holiday party this year thanks to the &#8220;current climate&#8221; not offering an &#8220;occasion to party,&#8221; the heads at <strong>Etnies<\/strong> decided it was time to step in and help their downtrodden footwear <em>brothren<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In a full page ad in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wweek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Willamette Week<\/a><\/strong>, Etnies invited the employees of Adidas to a Christmas party at <strong>My Father&#8217;s Place Bar<\/strong> including &#8220;special appearances by Santa Claus and his lovely lady elves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is in the holiday spirite that the skateboarders and employees of etnies Skate Shes extend a warm and sincere invitation to the skateboarders and employees of Adidas USA to joing us in a symbolic &#8220;laying down of arms&#8221; for one joyous night, that we may come togethe and reflect upon life&#8217;s gifts as we share good cheer, celebrate the season and kick the new year off on a solid foot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice. But now the big question: will anyone show up? Free beer does tend to draw a crowd. Either way it made <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/28051860\" target=\"_blank\">CNBC<\/a><\/strong> and that&#8217;s probably worth the cost of the ad.<strong> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/15840232?video=951985685\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the video<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Adidas Group Chairman Herbert Hainer emailed his 31,000 employees to let them know that the footwear giant would be skipping their $6.5 million holiday party this year thanks to the &#8220;current climate&#8221; not offering an &#8220;occasion to party,&#8221; the heads at Etnies decided it was time to step in and help their downtrodden footwear [&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":[10,3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932"}],"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=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}