{"id":7622,"date":"2009-04-22T19:52:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T02:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7622"},"modified":"2009-04-22T19:56:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T02:56:05","slug":"how-cool-are-these-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7622","title":{"rendered":"How Cool Are These Kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/23sanfran-600jpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/23sanfran-600jpg.jpeg','popup','width=600,height=380,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\/04\/23sanfran-600-tm.jpg\" height=\"272\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"23Sanfran-600.Jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/23\/garden\/23sanfran.html?hpw\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/strong> knows skateboarding is cool. And what better way to show how hip a young couple can be than by profiling <strong>Jay Shapiro<\/strong> and <strong>Claire Bigbie<\/strong> at their wonderfully skatie pad in San Francisco&#8217;s trendy Noe Valley neighborhood. The profile is filled with lines like these:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After Ms. Bigbie graduated in 2001, the couple lived in London for a year. Ms. Bigbie \u2014 who had been collecting furniture since she was 14 (about the same time she started skating) and had designed a skateboard clothing line by 16 and graphics for the indie record company Tooth + Nail by 18 \u2014 worked at the British furniture design company <strong>Precious McBane<\/strong>. . . Mr. Shapiro became an assistant to <strong>Richie Hopson<\/strong>, a British photographer. . . .When he was offered a job as a team manager for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkskateboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Skateboards<\/a><\/strong> in San Francisco, they returned, and Ms. Bigbie became a stylist for the do-it-yourself magazine <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readymade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ready Made<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that fellow skateboarders is exactly how you end up with an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.envelopead.com\/proj_clipperstreet.html\" target=\"_blank\">envelope a&#38;d designed $1 million house<\/a><\/strong> in SF. Notice our tone? That&#8217;s just us being jealous and petty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/23\/garden\/23sanfran.html?hpw\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.envelopead.com\/proj_clipperstreet.html\" target=\"_blank\">evelope a&#38;d<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times knows skateboarding is cool. And what better way to show how hip a young couple can be than by profiling Jay Shapiro and Claire Bigbie at their wonderfully skatie pad in San Francisco&#8217;s trendy Noe Valley neighborhood. The profile is filled with lines like these: After Ms. Bigbie graduated in 2001, [&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":[24,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622"}],"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=7622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7624,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions\/7624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}