{"id":531,"date":"2008-02-29T16:43:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T00:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2008-02-29T16:47:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T00:47:45","slug":"book-for-3rd-graders-stirs-up-snow-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Book For 3rd Graders Stirs Up Snow Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/0-7368-6481-4-tm.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/0-7368-6481-4-tm.jpg','popup','width=200,height=255,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\/2008\/02\/0-7368-6481-4-tm-tm.jpg\" height=\"255\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"0-7368-6481-4-Tm\" \/><\/a>We should have known that it would take a comic book for 3rd graders to grab the attention of the snowboard industry. <\/p>\n<p>This time someone sent an email out to some &#8220;industry insiders&#8221; telling them about a heinous new book out titled <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=0736864814%26tag=sacklunch%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/0736864814%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Burton Carpenter and the Snowboard<\/a><\/em><\/strong> that is accused of couching Jake Burton as the inventor of the snowboard. It&#8217;s already been linked up on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuel.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fuel.tv<\/a><\/strong>, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/community.burton.com\/forums\/thread\/449800.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Burton Forums<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transworldsnowboarding.com\/article.jsp?ID=1000053472&amp;typeID=102&amp;categoryID=0\" target=\"_blank\">Transworldsnowboarding.com<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/groupynetwork.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/henry-ford-thomas-edison-marie-curie.html\" target=\"_blank\">Group Y<\/a><\/strong> marketing club&#8217;s blog. The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/groupynetwork.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/henry-ford-thomas-edison-marie-curie.html\" target=\"_blank\">error filled email<\/a><\/strong> includes the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Burton has teamed up with a kids&#8217; book publisher to create their skewed version of snowboard history &#8212; for very young kids to &#8220;learn&#8221; from in early elementary school. Probably so that they&#8217;ll be inclined to buy Burton product as they get older. If you read this cartoon book, despite its after-the-fact footnotes, it is clear that Burton is trying to brainwash little kids these days that Jake invented snowboarding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Strangely, it appears that no one has read the book, because if they had, they&#8217;d realize that it&#8217;s just a goofy, mainstream comic book for 3rd graders featuring the story of how Jake founded his snowboard company. Yes, a kookie little book for 3rd graders. . . and the snow industry thinks it&#8217;s a conspiracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We should have known that it would take a comic book for 3rd graders to grab the attention of the snowboard industry. This time someone sent an email out to some &#8220;industry insiders&#8221; telling them about a heinous new book out titled Jake Burton Carpenter and the Snowboard that is accused of couching Jake Burton [&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":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"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=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}