{"id":4112,"date":"2009-01-15T13:08:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T21:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2009-01-15T13:08:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T21:08:53","slug":"florida-shapers-long-paddle-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4112","title":{"rendered":"Florida Shaper&#8217;s Long Paddle Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/21866894.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/21866894.jpg','popup','width=300,height=196,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\/2009\/01\/21866894-tm.jpg\" height=\"130\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"21866894\" \/><\/a>When Jacksonville, Florida surfboard shaper <strong>Clay Bennett<\/strong> closed up his shop two years ago to move to Texas he reportedly owed close to $30,000 in boards and cash to his customers. Now he&#8217;s back in town and some aren&#8217;t to happy about it according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/community\/shorelines\/2009-01-14\/story\/controversial_surfboard_maker_back_in_jacksonville_beach\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bennett riled some surfboard customers in 2007 because he owed them boards that had been paid for when he moved to Galveston, Texas, where he continued shaping boards. Bennett said he always intended to settle his debts, but when he was providing boards for prizes at a Gulf Coast surf contest, Florida surf Internet sites such as Fluidgroove and Surf Station lit up with criticism from some of Bennett&#8217;s former customers. Others offered support for him, praising his skills and surfboard designs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For one more reminder that talented, well-meaning shapers are often bad businessmen, click the link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/community\/shorelines\/2009-01-14\/story\/controversial_surfboard_maker_back_in_jacksonville_beach\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jacksonville, Florida surfboard shaper Clay Bennett closed up his shop two years ago to move to Texas he reportedly owed close to $30,000 in boards and cash to his customers. Now he&#8217;s back in town and some aren&#8217;t to happy about it according to a story on Jacksonville.com. Bennett riled some surfboard customers in [&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":[16,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112"}],"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=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4113,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions\/4113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}