{"id":92475,"date":"2014-04-01T06:54:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T13:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=92475"},"modified":"2014-04-01T06:54:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T13:54:51","slug":"surfing-kelly-slater-leaves-quiksilver-412014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=92475","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; Kelly Slater Leaves Quiksilver &#8211; 4\/1\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In a surprising development Monday, Kelly Slater announced in a letter to the public that he is leaving his longtime sponsor, Quiksilver, to begin a new venture with Kering Group. Kering, which has brands such as Gucci, Saint Laurent, Puma and Volcom, says on their website that they, \u201cdevelop an ensemble of powerful brands across two fast growing segments: Luxury and Sport &amp; Lifestyle.\u201d While this may seem like a bad April Fools joke, various sources have confirmed it to be the real deal. We\u2019ll keep you posted as we learn more. But for now, here\u2019s Kelly\u2019s letter as it appeared on the ASP\u2019s site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is little I can say that would give the credit due or cover the debt of gratitude I feel on a personal and professional level to Quiksilver. As a brand and on a human level, they have been\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfingmagazine.com\/news\/kelly-slater-leaves-quiksilver\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprising development Monday, Kelly Slater announced in a letter to the public that he is leaving his longtime sponsor, Quiksilver, to begin a new venture with Kering Group. Kering, which has brands such as Gucci, Saint Laurent, Puma and Volcom, says on their website that they, \u201cdevelop an ensemble of powerful brands across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,77,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clothing-soft-goods","category-fashion","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92475","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=92475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92476,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92475\/revisions\/92476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}