{"id":29368,"date":"2012-03-22T14:05:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29368"},"modified":"2012-03-22T14:06:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T21:06:04","slug":"kronbauer-puts-clubmumble-com-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29368","title":{"rendered":"Kronbauer Puts ClubMumble.com To Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mumble.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mumble.jpg','popup','width=1183,height=703,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\/2012\/03\/mumble-tm.jpg\" height=\"118\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Mumble\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;re kind of bummed that it took us this long to notice, but on March 6, 2012 <strong>Bob Kronbauer<\/strong> (the creator of Pacific Skateboarding, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/clubmumble.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clubmumble.com<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverisawesome.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">VancouverIsAwesome.com<\/a><\/strong> et al) decided to &#8220;lay the Club Mumble website to rest.&#8221; Here&#8217;s what he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like any project, if you let something sit for long enough without stoking the fire and tending to it and shaping it (or launching new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/clubmumble.com\/2009\/02\/01\/mumbles-honoris-professio-1grant-brittain-goes-pro\/\" target=\"_blank\">Honoris Professio projects<\/a><\/strong>, etc), it gets old. And it gets obsolete as new technologies come in and make it easier and easier to publish. I\u2019ve been publishing online since 1997 when I started the first online skateboarding magazine (Pacific Skateboarding, remember that?) and if I know one thing for certain about myself it is that I have to dedicate myself completely to something or else I simply can\u2019t be involved in it; I have an all or nothing kind of personality. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kronbauer tried to get some of the many <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/clubmumble.com\/club-mumble-members\/\" target=\"_blank\">notable contributors<\/a><\/strong> to take of the site and maybe share a slice of the advertising with him, but no one wanted to do it so as he says he&#8217;s &#8220;closing the book on this chapter of Club Mumble. No longer an active blog, this site will now act as a time capsule for all of the super interesting projects that the members of our Club have shared here over the past few years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll miss the site and most of all we&#8217;ll missing linking to the always engaging content.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/clubmumble.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Club Mumble<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re kind of bummed that it took us this long to notice, but on March 6, 2012 Bob Kronbauer (the creator of Pacific Skateboarding, Clubmumble.com, VancouverIsAwesome.com et al) decided to &#8220;lay the Club Mumble website to rest.&#8221; Here&#8217;s what he said: Like any project, if you let something sit for long enough without stoking the [&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":[11,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29368"}],"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=29368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29370,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29368\/revisions\/29370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}