{"id":3580,"date":"2008-12-29T09:07:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T17:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3580"},"modified":"2008-12-29T12:44:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T20:44:28","slug":"now-i-gotta-reasonable-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3580","title":{"rendered":"Now I Gotta Reasonable Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/29pools-span.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/29pools-span.jpg','popup','width=600,height=330,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\/29pools-span-tm.jpg\" height=\"236\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"29Pools Span\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/29\/us\/29pools.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> jumps on the age old pool skater mantra: disasters mean more empty pools with a story on how the increase in home foreclosure is doing just that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Across the nation, the ultimate symbol of suburban success has become one more reminder of the economic meltdown, with builders going under, pools going to seed and skaters finding a surplus of deserted pools in which to perfect their acrobatic aerials. . . . In these boom times for skaters, <strong>Mr. Peacock<\/strong> travels with a gas-powered pump, five-gallon buckets, shovels and a push broom, risking trespassing charges in the pursuit of emptying forlorn pools and turning them into de facto skate parks. . . . Some skateboarders use realty tracking sites like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realquest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">realquest.com<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">realtor.com<\/a><\/strong> to find foreclosed houses with pools, while others trawl through satellite images from Google Earth. On the Web site <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skateandannoy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">skateandannoy.com<\/a><\/strong>, where skaters trade tips about how to find and drain abandoned pools, one poster wrote about the current economic malaise. \u201cGod bless Greenspan,\u201d the post read, \u201cpatron saint of pool skatin\u2019.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to know that no matter how bad things get, skateboarders will continue to feast on the corpse of suburban excess.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/29\/us\/29pools.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times jumps on the age old pool skater mantra: disasters mean more empty pools with a story on how the increase in home foreclosure is doing just that. Across the nation, the ultimate symbol of suburban success has become one more reminder of the economic meltdown, with builders going under, pools going [&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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580"}],"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=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions\/3596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}