{"id":64224,"date":"2022-05-24T11:31:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T18:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=64224"},"modified":"2022-05-24T11:51:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T18:51:28","slug":"william-finnegan-pumps-kai-lenny-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=64224","title":{"rendered":"William Finnegan Pumps Kai Lenny Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/kailennyTNY.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/kailennyTNY.png 450w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/kailennyTNY-200x132.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In these days of &#8220;influencers&#8221; and &#8220;getting paid&#8221; and &#8220;content as commerce&#8221; it&#8217;s difficult to look at a personality profile in a national magazine (like <em><strong>The New Yorker<\/strong><\/em>) as anything more than a puff piece designed to increase revenue for the person being featured.<\/p>\n<p>How can a writer, in this case surfer and Pulitzer Prize winner <strong>William Finnegan<\/strong>, feel like anything more than a small cog in <strong>Kai Lenny&#8217;s<\/strong> PR machine? Does it even matter if the story is good? Or well written? Or insightful? It&#8217;s Kai Lenny in <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, getting more views and more attention so he can get more cash from more sponsors. And maybe that&#8217;s how it&#8217;s always been, but lately, it seems just a little blown out. Then again, we&#8217;re likely part of the problem as we&#8217;ve written and posted this before even reading the story, because, why?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2022\/05\/30\/kai-lenny-surfs-the-unsurfable\">The New Yorker<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these days of &#8220;influencers&#8221; and &#8220;getting paid&#8221; and &#8220;content as commerce&#8221; it&#8217;s difficult to look at a personality profile in a national magazine (like The New Yorker) as anything more than a puff piece designed to increase revenue for the person being featured. How can a writer, in this case surfer and Pulitzer Prize [&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":[15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64224"}],"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=64224"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64233,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64224\/revisions\/64233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}