{"id":19486,"date":"2009-08-24T14:38:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T21:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=19486"},"modified":"2011-03-20T19:30:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T02:30:27","slug":"motorcycle-street-as-harley-cuts-staff-the-key-is-not-to-hurt-product-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=19486","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Street &#8211; As Harley cuts staff, the key is not to hurt product development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For decades, the product development center at Harley-Davidson Inc. has been a place where iconic motorcycles are created &#8211; sometimes from a simple sketch &#8211; and come to life after thousands of hours of refinement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Housed in a steel-and-glass building tucked behind the company&#8217;s manufacturing plant in Wauwatosa, the center is named after Willie G. Davidson, grandson of one of the company&#8217;s founders and head of the Harley design team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yet despite its prestige, the center has seen dozens of job cuts as &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/business\/54008112.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the product development center at Harley-Davidson Inc. has been a place where iconic motorcycles are created &#8211; sometimes from a simple sketch &#8211; and come to life after thousands of hours of refinement. Housed in a steel-and-glass building tucked behind the company&#8217;s manufacturing plant in Wauwatosa, the center is named after Willie G. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19486","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=19486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46622,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19486\/revisions\/46622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}