{"id":33983,"date":"2010-07-12T20:58:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T03:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=33983"},"modified":"2010-07-12T21:32:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T04:32:43","slug":"skateboarding-mike-vallely-gives-element-the-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=33983","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarding &#8211; Mike Vallely Gives Element The Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Straight from the Sh-tter, I mean Twitter, Mike V tweated, or twit, or whatever were calling it that he has left Element to start his own &#8220;independent&#8221; skateboard company, By The Sword Skateboards. This comes just weeks after he announced he is going to try out professional hockey, so I guess he&#8217;s also going to try out the business world as well. This guy has his hands in everything; he&#8217;s in a band, he&#8217;s a professional skateboarder, a professional hockey player, a motivational speaker, and by the way I went to one of his spoken words things when I was like 12. Does anyone remember those? He used to talk of\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/blog\/18812\/mike+v+gives+element+the+sword\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=SZ7wAI9J8G0&#038;offerid=171598.10000008&#038;type=4&#038;subid=0\"><IMG alt=\"Logo_468x60\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nautica.com\/graphics\/promo\/NAU\/naut_logo_468x60.jpg\"><\/a><IMG border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=SZ7wAI9J8G0&#038;bids=171598.10000008&#038;type=4&#038;subid=0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Straight from the Sh-tter, I mean Twitter, Mike V tweated, or twit, or whatever were calling it that he has left Element to start his own &#8220;independent&#8221; skateboard company, By The Sword Skateboards. This comes just weeks after he announced he is going to try out professional hockey, so I guess he&#8217;s also going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33983","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=33983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33985,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33983\/revisions\/33985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}