{"id":7440,"date":"2009-04-16T11:48:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T18:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7440"},"modified":"2009-04-16T15:25:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T22:25:45","slug":"the-brand-new-businessmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7440","title":{"rendered":"The Brand New Businessmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/shecklerjpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/shecklerjpg.jpeg','popup','width=470,height=245,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\/2009\/04\/sheckler-tm.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Sheckler.Jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/startingabusiness\/successstories\/article201278.html\" target=\"_blank\">Entrepreneur magazine<\/a><\/strong> checks in with the raddest businessmen on the planet: <strong>Ryan Sheckler<\/strong>, bmxer <strong>Dave Mirra<\/strong>, and <strong>Paul Rodriguez<\/strong> to see how things are hanging. From Sheckler&#8217;s &#8220;Ferrari F430 parked outside,&#8221; to Mirra&#8217;s &#8220;multimillion-dollar business&#8221; to  P.Rod&#8217;s &#8220;shoe boutique&#8221; the magazine makes it look like getting paid isn&#8217;t so bad afterall.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a skateboarder,&#8221; Sheckler says. &#8220;I&#8217;ll always be just a skateboarder. But I have these awesome opportunities that I&#8217;ll never let go by. It started with skateboarding. It&#8217;ll end with skateboarding. The things I do in between are my choice. The haters can say what they want, and the people who are my friends can realize what I&#8217;m doing and realize the empire I&#8217;m building for myself, and tag along and have some fun.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now really, who would hate on Ryan?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/startingabusiness\/successstories\/article201278.html\" target=\"_blank\">Entregreneur.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur magazine checks in with the raddest businessmen on the planet: Ryan Sheckler, bmxer Dave Mirra, and Paul Rodriguez to see how things are hanging. From Sheckler&#8217;s &#8220;Ferrari F430 parked outside,&#8221; to Mirra&#8217;s &#8220;multimillion-dollar business&#8221; to P.Rod&#8217;s &#8220;shoe boutique&#8221; the magazine makes it look like getting paid isn&#8217;t so bad afterall. &#8220;I&#8217;m a skateboarder,&#8221; Sheckler [&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":[3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440"}],"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=7440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7443,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/revisions\/7443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}