{"id":30573,"date":"2012-05-08T18:18:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T01:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30573"},"modified":"2012-05-08T18:43:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T01:43:47","slug":"penny-for-ben-mackays-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30573","title":{"rendered":"Penny For Ben Mackay&#8217;s Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/41541906\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wondering where <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennyskateboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Penny Skateboards<\/a><\/strong> came from? So were we. That&#8217;s why it was great of founder <strong>Ben Mackay<\/strong> to kick it all down for us on Vimeo.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From his humble beginnings to the challenges of breaking into the industry, Ben tells in his own words how early lessons in life had inspired him to chase his dream in helping to bring the \u201cfun\u201d back into skateboarding.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, that&#8217;s one of our favorite skateboarding stories. Click play and hear it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering where Penny Skateboards came from? So were we. That&#8217;s why it was great of founder Ben Mackay to kick it all down for us on Vimeo. From his humble beginnings to the challenges of breaking into the industry, Ben tells in his own words how early lessons in life had inspired him to chase [&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":[37,3,28,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30573"}],"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=30573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30577,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30573\/revisions\/30577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}