{"id":62938,"date":"2019-12-09T06:49:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T13:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=62938"},"modified":"2020-06-15T07:12:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T14:12:23","slug":"emerald-adds-shop-eat-surf-to-their-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=62938","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery Sells Shop Eat Surf To Emerald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-62939\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/seslogo_810-200x24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"24\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/seslogo_810-200x24.png 200w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/seslogo_810-450x53.png 450w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/seslogo_810-768x91.png 768w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/seslogo_810.png 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><strong>Shop Eat Surf<\/strong> founder <strong>Tiffany Montgomery<\/strong> announced today (December 9, 2019) that she has sold her industry focused website to trade show and events company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emeraldx.com\"><strong>Emerald X<\/strong><\/a> for what is likely, not a whole lot, because, hey, she&#8217;d probably like a more consistent paycheck and better health insurance (wouldn&#8217;t we all).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are proud of what we have accomplished as a stand-alone, bootstrapped start-up in a rapidly evolving media environment,&#8221; Montgomery said in a post announcing the sale. &#8220;What started as an experiment 12 years ago has turned into a news service that is read by industry leaders around the world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We always hated the site&#8217;s name. We also felt that Montgomery was an opportunistic, interloping, outsider looking to feast on what was left of the rotting corpse of the action sports industry, but turns out she is a talented, likable, honest journalist who took seriously what we often write jokes about. So, nice work Tiffany. Sad to see you go.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Editors&#8217; Note<\/strong>: We&#8217;re posting this news a long time after the actual sale and in light of current events it seems like Montgomery had perfect timing.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/sgbonline.com\/emerald-expositions-acquires-b2b-trade-pub-shop-eat-surf\/\">SGB Online<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shop Eat Surf founder Tiffany Montgomery announced today (December 9, 2019) that she has sold her industry focused website to trade show and events company Emerald X for what is likely, not a whole lot, because, hey, she&#8217;d probably like a more consistent paycheck and better health insurance (wouldn&#8217;t we all). &#8220;We are proud of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62938"}],"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=62938"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62945,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62938\/revisions\/62945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}