{"id":758,"date":"2008-05-05T20:37:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T04:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=758"},"modified":"2008-05-05T20:39:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T04:39:21","slug":"curtis-interviews-joe-maloof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Interviews Joe Maloof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/2-joe-maloof1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" alt=\"2-Joe_Maloof.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\" \/>We&#8217;re not so down with big money leaches rolling in to skateboarding simply because it &#8220;looks like easy pickin&#8217;s,&#8221; so it&#8217;s interesting reading <strong>Carleton Curtis&#8217;<\/strong> interview with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maloofmoneycup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maloof Big Money Cup<\/a>&#8216;s Joe Maloof<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maloof_family\" target=\"_new\">Maloof family<\/a>&#8212;the ridiculously wealthy owners of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kings.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Sacramento Kings<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palms.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Palms Hotel and Casino<\/a> in Las Vegas, with no connections to skateboarding&#8212;announced almost two years ago that they&#8217;d be financing the richest skate contest in our history. It&#8217;s safe to say our B.S. meter rocketed off the charts. But two years&#8217; worth of careful planning and expert advice later, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maloofmoneycup.com\/\" target=\"_new\">The Maloof Money Cup<\/a>is poised to be one of the most watchable events in recent memory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re not saying we agree, but the interview is well-worth reading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skateboarding.com\/article.jsp?ID=1000060027&amp;type=stories&amp;typeID=419\" target=\"_blank\">Skateboarding.com<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re not so down with big money leaches rolling in to skateboarding simply because it &#8220;looks like easy pickin&#8217;s,&#8221; so it&#8217;s interesting reading Carleton Curtis&#8217; interview with Maloof Big Money Cup&#8216;s Joe Maloof. The Maloof family&#8212;the ridiculously wealthy owners of the Sacramento Kings and the Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, with no connections [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758"}],"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=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}