{"id":47443,"date":"2011-04-05T06:23:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T13:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=47443"},"modified":"2011-04-05T06:23:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T13:23:12","slug":"is-big-dog-motorcycles-closing-its-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=47443","title":{"rendered":"Is Big Dog Motorcycles Closing its Doors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Word is spreading over the internet that\u00c2\u00a0Big Dog Motorcycles is closing its doors. Blogger Cyril Huze is the first to report the company has been calling dealers to inform them that Big Dog Motorcycles is going under. The Wichita Eagle, located in the same city as Big Dog\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manufacturing plant and headquarters, didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t run the same story but did report that BDM cut another 10 production workers and is down to 22 employees. In the Wichita Eagle story, it states that company president Mike Simmons is deferring questions about the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s status to Big Dog owner Sheldon Coleman, who couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be reached at the time the article was published\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-usa.com\/4\/1024\/6\/Motorcycle-Blog-Post\/Is-Big-Dog-Motorcycles-Closing-its-Doors-.aspx\" 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>Word is spreading over the internet that\u00c2\u00a0Big Dog Motorcycles is closing its doors. Blogger Cyril Huze is the first to report the company has been calling dealers to inform them that Big Dog Motorcycles is going under. The Wichita Eagle, located in the same city as Big Dog\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manufacturing plant and headquarters, didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t run the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47443","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\/47443","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=47443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47444,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47443\/revisions\/47444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}