{"id":4451,"date":"2009-01-23T09:19:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T17:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2009-01-24T15:44:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T23:44:57","slug":"action-sports-fashion-wipe-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4451","title":{"rendered":"Action Sports Fashion Wipe Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/wipeout-t350.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/wipeout-t350.jpg','popup','width=350,height=210,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\/wipeout-t350-tm.jpg\" height=\"120\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Wipeout T350\" \/><\/a>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/jan\/23\/1n23wipeout233726-economy-wiping-out-some-action-s\/?zIndex=41736\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong> is holding no punches in its coverage of the January 2009 ASR Show.<\/p>\n<p>In a story filled with words like &#8220;struggling&#8221; and &#8220;tough&#8221; and &#8220;worst&#8221; writer <strong>Jennifer Davies<\/strong> talked to many industry players and got nothing but bad news from nearly everyone.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere is no immunity idol on this island,\u201d said <strong>Doug Palladini<\/strong>, vice president of marketing at Vans, referring to the \u201cSurvivor\u201d television show. \u201cIt can happen to anybody.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doug is always so poetic, isn&#8217;t he? ASR spokesperson <strong>Lora Bodmer<\/strong> on the other hand was alone with her glimmer of positivity. \u201cWe looked out over the show and said, &#8216;Hey, this isn&#8217;t so bad,&#8217; \u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s kind of what we thought at first, but after walking the isles on day one and seeing that zombie &#8220;God, I hope I don&#8217;t get fired tomorrow&#8221; look in everyone&#8217;s eyes we&#8217;re not so sure anymore. While watching toilet seat tossing at the Vee-Haw <strong>Volcom<\/strong> booth we couldn&#8217;t help but think of them as a bunch of oblivious Hillbillies fiddling away on their out-of-tune banjos while flames licked at the cuffs of their overalls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/jan\/23\/1n23wipeout233726-economy-wiping-out-some-action-s\/?zIndex=41736\" target=\"_blank\">San Deigo Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Union-Tribune is holding no punches in its coverage of the January 2009 ASR Show. In a story filled with words like &#8220;struggling&#8221; and &#8220;tough&#8221; and &#8220;worst&#8221; writer Jennifer Davies talked to many industry players and got nothing but bad news from nearly everyone. \u201cThere is no immunity idol on this island,\u201d said [&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":[10,3,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451"}],"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=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4504,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions\/4504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}