{"id":3197,"date":"2008-12-13T21:44:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T05:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2008-12-13T22:23:34","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T06:23:34","slug":"the-economy-vs-surfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3197","title":{"rendered":"The Economy vs. Surfing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/14surfing600.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/14surfing600.jpg','popup','width=600,height=310,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\/14surfing600-tm.jpg\" height=\"103\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"14Surfing.600\" \/><\/a>In something of a logic reach (nice, if it got him a paid trip to Hawaii) <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/14\/sports\/othersports\/14surfing.html?_r=1&amp;ref=othersports\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> writer <strong>Matt Higgins<\/strong> delves into the fading economy, <strong>Quiksilver&#8217;s<\/strong> stock price, and professional surfing and discovers that for the most part surfers don&#8217;t really care.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Randy Rarick, the executive director of the <strong>Vans Triple Crown of Surfing<\/strong>, taking place on the North Shore of Oahu this week, said: \u201cI have a little saying, \u2018The stock market is down; surf is up.\u2019 No matter what, you don\u2019t have a paycheck coming in, you\u2019re not doing anything, you can still go out and catch a wave.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then there is Quik team manager <strong>Strider Wasilewski<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA lot of these guys live in their own reality, which they have created \u2014 which is a good one,\u201d he said. \u201cMost of these guys don\u2019t even know there\u2019s a recession.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, it&#8217;s the fashion industry that is having problems, not surfing. And that is a good thing to remember.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/14\/sports\/othersports\/14surfing.html?_r=1&amp;ref=othersports\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In something of a logic reach (nice, if it got him a paid trip to Hawaii) The New York Times writer Matt Higgins delves into the fading economy, Quiksilver&#8217;s stock price, and professional surfing and discovers that for the most part surfers don&#8217;t really care. Randy Rarick, the executive director of the Vans Triple Crown [&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\/3197"}],"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=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3204,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}