So, I know there’s a bit of a rumor going around the youth culture\/action sports\/industry insider\/shred dog circles that sportswear mogul, Nike, is going to buy Burton Snowboards.<\/p>\n
As it turns out, this is not true. But more on that later.<\/p>\n
What I am interested in here is not only that an until-recently-non-endemic company is looking to buy a boardsports company, but that there is yet another buyout in the air. Let’s remember that in February of 2006, Burton bought Channel Islands\u00c2\u00a0 …\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, I know there’s a bit of a rumor going around the youth culture\/action sports\/industry insider\/shred dog circles that sportswear mogul, Nike, is going to buy Burton Snowboards. As it turns out, this is not true. But more on that later. What I am interested in here is not only that an until-recently-non-endemic company is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,11,50,53,4,52,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising-page","category-misc","category-new-snow-products-tests","category-new-surf-products-tests","category-snow","category-snowboard","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12561,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12560\/revisions\/12561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}