{"id":37230,"date":"2012-10-25T19:45:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T02:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=37230"},"modified":"2012-10-27T22:07:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T05:07:32","slug":"wait-give-what-to-whom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=37230","title":{"rendered":"Wait, Give What To Whom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/giveforumtopeter.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/giveforumtopeter.jpg','popup','width=611,height=612,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\/2012\/10\/giveforumtopeter-tm.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Giveforumtopeter\" \/><\/a>In the hours following the announcement that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/burton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burton Snowboards<\/a><\/strong> would &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=37098\" target=\"_blank\">exit out of&#8221; The Program brands by 2014<\/a><\/strong> a hash meme started: <strong>#GiveFORUMtoPeter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We saw it first in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/RJaQZIlMgc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Richards&#8217; Instafeed<\/a><\/strong>. Then today <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/boardasfuck.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/giveforumtopeter.html?zx=88f7002a042778c0\" target=\"_blank\">Board As Fuck<\/a><\/strong> featured a link to the website <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giveforumtopeter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GiveForumtopeter.com<\/a><\/strong>. That site features a online petition that as of tonight (October 25, 2012) has 4,534 supporters.<\/p>\n<p>All this was obviously too much for the mind behind <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/the-tackledbox.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Tackled Box<\/a><\/strong> because he let loose one of the best snowboard rants we&#8217;ve read in years. It starts out like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are you kidding me?  All the hoopla over saving Forum? GIVE it back to Peter?  Really?  Shit if there was this much excitement over the brand during the last few years the brand wouldn\u2019t have been put to rest.  You want to know why Burton cut the cord on Forum?  Cause not too many people gave too many shits about it, that\u2019s why.  Forum is a brand that failed and by the grace of the snowboard Gods in Vermont got a second chance at life and then failed again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s only the first paragraph. For the rest of the hilarious, biting, unauthorized history of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forumsnowboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forum<\/a><\/strong> brand as only a competitor can put it down, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/the-tackledbox.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/giveforumtopeter.html\" target=\"_blank\">click the link<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/the-tackledbox.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/giveforumtopeter.html\" target=\"_blank\">TackledBox<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the hours following the announcement that Burton Snowboards would &#8220;exit out of&#8221; The Program brands by 2014 a hash meme started: #GiveFORUMtoPeter. We saw it first in Todd Richards&#8217; Instafeed. Then today Board As Fuck featured a link to the website GiveForumtopeter.com. That site features a online petition that as of tonight (October 25, [&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":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37230"}],"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=37230"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37271,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37230\/revisions\/37271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}