{"id":5396,"date":"2009-02-18T13:01:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T21:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2009-02-18T14:40:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T22:40:35","slug":"forbes-list-who-is-getting-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5396","title":{"rendered":"Forbes List: Who Is Getting Paid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/0218-action-sports-03-ryan-sheckler.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/0218-action-sports-03-ryan-sheckler.jpg','popup','width=280,height=340,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\/02\/0218-action-sports-03-ryan-sheckler-tm.jpg\" height=\"121\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"0218 Action-Sports 03 Ryan-Sheckler\" \/><\/a>The more we follow the financial press and see the way they operates the funnier stories like this become. <strong><em>Forbes<\/em><\/strong> has released a list of the highest paid action sports athletes and they base their numbers on completely on &#8220;interviews with industry experts.&#8221; In other words, your guess is as good as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2009\/02\/17\/shaun-white-tony-hawk-business-sports_0218_action_sports.html\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The experts are saying that <strong>Tony Hawk<\/strong> made $12 million last year and that put him in the number one position. <strong>Shaun White<\/strong> was number two at $9 million, <strong>Ryan Sheckler<\/strong> was number three at $5 million. <\/p>\n<p>As <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skateboardworks.com\/2009\/02\/18\/forbes-magazine-list-of-higest-paid-in-action-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skateboardworks.com<\/a><\/strong> says: &#8220;Suspiciously missing from the list is <strong>Rob Dyrdek<\/strong> and <strong>BAM<\/strong>, who both make at least $1 mill per year.&#8221; Makes us wonder what &#8220;experts&#8221; they actually talked to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2009\/02\/17\/shaun-white-tony-hawk-business-sports_0218_action_sports.html\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more we follow the financial press and see the way they operates the funnier stories like this become. Forbes has released a list of the highest paid action sports athletes and they base their numbers on completely on &#8220;interviews with industry experts.&#8221; In other words, your guess is as good as Forbes. The experts [&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":[3,4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396"}],"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=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5414,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions\/5414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}