{"id":8422,"date":"2009-05-29T08:08:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8422"},"modified":"2009-05-29T11:21:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T18:21:13","slug":"vans-gets-a-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8422","title":{"rendered":"Vans Gets A New President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/vans-logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/vans-logo.jpg','popup','width=832,height=387,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\/05\/vans-logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"46\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Vans Logo\" \/><\/a>After <strong>Steve Murray<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4252\" target=\"_blank\">got kicked upstairs<\/a><\/strong> to run <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vfc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">VF\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> Action Sports Coalition in January 2009 it was only a matter of time before <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vans<\/a><\/strong> would need someone all its own. And the new guy? Former Vans retail division&#8217;s <strong>Kevin Bailey<\/strong>, according to the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocbj.com\/industry_article.asp?aID=41975098.421612.1787994.6352307.5240987.705&amp;aID2=137529\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County Business Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bailey, we only have one request: don&#8217;t change the Old Skools. Other than that, go to town.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocbj.com\/industry_article.asp?aID=41975098.421612.1787994.6352307.5240987.705&amp;aID2=137529\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County Business Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Steve Murray got kicked upstairs to run VF\u2019s Action Sports Coalition in January 2009 it was only a matter of time before Vans would need someone all its own. And the new guy? Former Vans retail division&#8217;s Kevin Bailey, according to the Orange County Business Journal. Mr. Bailey, we only have one request: don&#8217;t [&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":[10,3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422"}],"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=8422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8425,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions\/8425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}