{"id":40856,"date":"2013-03-28T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40856"},"modified":"2013-03-28T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T00:10:10","slug":"is-globalization-killing-us-surfboard-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40856","title":{"rendered":"Is Globalization Killing US Surfboard Sales?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width = \"450\" height = \"290\" ><param name = \"movie\" value = \"http:\/\/dgjigvacl6ipj.cloudfront.net\/media\/swf\/PBSPlayer.swf\" ><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"width=450&#038;height=290&#038;video=http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/videoPlayerInfo\/2353634861\/?player=PBS_Partner_Player_v1&#038;start=0&#038;end=0&#038;balance=true&#038;player=viral&#038;end=0&#038;lr_admap=in:warnings:0;in:pbs:0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param ><param name = \"allowscriptaccess\" value = \"always\" ><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param ><embed src=\"http:\/\/dgjigvacl6ipj.cloudfront.net\/media\/swf\/PBSPlayer.swf\" flashvars=\"width=450&#038;height=290&#038;video=http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/videoPlayerInfo\/2353634861\/?player=PBS_Partner_Player_v1&#038;start=0&#038;end=0&#038;balance=true&#038;player=viral&#038;end=0&#038;lr_admap=in:warnings:0;in:pbs:0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>We missed this last week when <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinitysurf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Infinity Surfboard Company&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Steve Boehne<\/strong> was featured on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/business\/jan-june13\/surfers_03-21.html\" target=\"_blank\">PBS Newshour<\/a><\/strong>, but here&#8217;s how it goes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Economic correspondent <strong>Paul Solman<\/strong> reports on an American-born product hit hard by globalization: the surfboard. In Southern California, U.S.-based manufacturers fear they will soon be wiped out by competing, foreign companies due to discrepancies in labor costs and duty taxes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Probably one of the best bits we&#8217;ve seen on explaining the ins and outs of free trade. For even more on the story including why it might be a bad idea to fight back, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/2013\/03\/high-foreign-tariffs-on-us-surfboards-should-we-retaliate.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/business\/jan-june13\/surfers_03-21.html\" target=\"_blank\">PBS Newshour<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/movenshake\/status\/317389167300591617\" target=\"_blank\">Movenshake<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We missed this last week when Infinity Surfboard Company&#8217;s Steve Boehne was featured on PBS Newshour, but here&#8217;s how it goes. Economic correspondent Paul Solman reports on an American-born product hit hard by globalization: the surfboard. In Southern California, U.S.-based manufacturers fear they will soon be wiped out by competing, foreign companies due to discrepancies [&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":[6,28,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40856"}],"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=40856"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40866,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40856\/revisions\/40866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}