{"id":44289,"date":"2013-11-27T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T20:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44289"},"modified":"2013-11-27T12:01:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T20:01:03","slug":"joel-tudor-sued-over-kookbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44289","title":{"rendered":"Joel Tudor Sued Over Kookbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tudor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-44290\" alt=\"Large Surf Pounds So Cal Coast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tudor-200x133.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tudor-200x133.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tudor-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tudor.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>We have to admit, we&#8217;re not exactly up on the NYC and\/or longboard surf scene, but apparently, <strong>Joel Tudor&#8217;<\/strong>s company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kookboxx.com\/\"><strong>Kookbox<\/strong><\/a> (which he co-founded with New York based photographer\u00a0<strong>Andrew Blauschild<\/strong>), is having some organization issues, according to a story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/11\/25\/surf-legend-became-a-terror-during-partnership-lawsuit\/\"><em><strong>NY Post<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Blauschild claims that Tudor \u2014 one of the world\u2019s best-known surfers \u2014 became increasingly arrogant over the years and started treating him and other staffers like serfs . . .\u00a0\u201cJoel is one of the best-known surfers in history,\u201d Blauschild told The Post. \u201cBut he has some issues.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, Blauschild is suing Tudor in Federal court to have him &#8220;officially booted from the company.&#8221; Blauschild is also &#8220;demanding unspecified damages for slander and other misdeeds.&#8221; Guess that&#8217;s what happens when a California Surfer and a New York Photographer try to bridge the West Coast\/East Coast gap in a business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/11\/25\/surf-legend-became-a-terror-during-partnership-lawsuit\/\">NY Post<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have to admit, we&#8217;re not exactly up on the NYC and\/or longboard surf scene, but apparently, Joel Tudor&#8217;s company Kookbox (which he co-founded with New York based photographer\u00a0Andrew Blauschild), is having some organization issues, according to a story in the NY Post. But Blauschild claims that Tudor \u2014 one of the world\u2019s best-known surfers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44289"}],"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=44289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44291,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44289\/revisions\/44291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}