{"id":556,"date":"2008-03-03T08:59:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T16:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2008-03-03T08:59:58","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T16:59:58","slug":"sanuk-footwear-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Sanuk Footwear Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old news for <strong>Sanuk<\/strong>, but a new story from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdbj.com\/industry_article.asp?aID=64478116.581351.1594216.92408.8533514.630&amp;aID2=122623\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Business Journal<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In February, the New York-based trade publication Footwear Plus awarded the local company the Footwear Item of the Year award in the multibillion-dollar footwear industry.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly three years ago, <strong>Sanuk<\/strong> introduced the Sidewalk Surfer, slip-on footwear that falls somewhere between a shoe and a sandal. Since then, sales have more than doubled.<\/p>\n<p>The closed-toe shoes are made of malleable cloth that flattens to fit into a backpack or to take to the beach. A pair retails from $48 to $55.<\/p>\n<p>Sanuk President <strong>John Vance<\/strong> says that the company&#8217;s founder, <strong>Jeff Kelley<\/strong>, drives the business and keeps ideas fresh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdbj.com\/industry_article.asp?aID=64478116.581351.1594216.92408.8533514.630&amp;aID2=122623\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Business Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old news for Sanuk, but a new story from the San Diego Business Journal: In February, the New York-based trade publication Footwear Plus awarded the local company the Footwear Item of the Year award in the multibillion-dollar footwear industry. Nearly three years ago, Sanuk introduced the Sidewalk Surfer, slip-on footwear that falls somewhere between a [&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":[10,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"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=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}