{"id":29355,"date":"2012-03-22T12:16:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T19:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29355"},"modified":"2012-03-22T12:16:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T19:16:39","slug":"abc-ambushes-tony-hawk-about-worker-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29355","title":{"rendered":"ABC Ambushes Tony Hawk About Worker Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object name=\"kaltura_player_1332443268\" id=\"kaltura_player_1332443268\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowNetworking=\"all\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" height=\"259\" width=\"450\" data=\"http:\/\/cdnapi.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/wid\/0_e3cy0set\/uiconf_id\/6501231\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/cdnapi.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/wid\/0_e3cy0set\/uiconf_id\/6501231\"\/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"referer=http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/video\/tony-hawk-deaths-clothing-factory-15975838&#038;autoPlay=false\"\/><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.kaltura.com\">video platform<\/a><br \/>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/corp.kaltura.com\/video_platform\/video_management\">video management<\/a><br \/>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/corp.kaltura.com\/solutions\/video_solution\">video solutions<\/a><br \/>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/corp.kaltura.com\/video_platform\/video_publishing\">video player<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Over the past five years 500 workers have been killed in fires at garment factories in Bangladesh. Last year a fire reportedly swept through a factory that made <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kohls.com\/kohlsStore\/ourbrands\/tonyhawk.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Hawk Clothing<\/a><\/strong> for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kohls.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kohl&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> killing 29 people. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/tony-hawks-clothing-line-made-unsafe-factories\/story?id=15972054#.T2t5FY647am\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News<\/a><\/strong> used this as an opportunity to ambush <strong>Tony Hawk<\/strong> at a skatepark opening to see if he thought celebrity clothing endorsers should keep closers tabs on the safety of workers in the factories that make the clothes that carry their names.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s tragic,&#8221; Hawk told ABC News. &#8220;I think that the safety standards need to change and I support whatever change that they can make there. . . I definitely want to follow up and make sure that it&#8217;s safe. I mean that&#8217;s the bottom line, it has to be safe.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice work, Tony. Kind of a cheap shot from ABC News who obviously knows that every single thing American&#8217;s consume in mass quantities is made offshore in factories where people are paid next to nothing. But hey, celebrities sell news, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/tony-hawks-clothing-line-made-unsafe-factories\/story?id=15972054#.T2t5FY647am\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>video platform video management video solutions video player Over the past five years 500 workers have been killed in fires at garment factories in Bangladesh. Last year a fire reportedly swept through a factory that made Hawk Clothing for Kohl&#8217;s killing 29 people. ABC News used this as an opportunity to ambush Tony Hawk at [&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":[15,10,3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29357,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29355\/revisions\/29357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}