{"id":48230,"date":"2011-04-21T13:24:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=48230"},"modified":"2011-04-21T13:24:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T20:24:11","slug":"motorcycle-the-indian-gambit-%e2%80%93-polaris-puts-harley-davidson-on-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=48230","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle &#8211; The Indian Gambit \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Polaris Puts Harley-Davidson on Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Before yesterday afternoon, I had a hard time getting excited about Polaris. I think they make snowmobiles\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure. This is how engaged with their brands I was, but of course this has all changed with the news that Polaris Industries, Inc. has acquired Indian Motorcycle for still undisclosed terms. Covering the business strategy side of motorcycling for the past two and a half years, I can tell you that there are few moves or decisions that strike me as truly inspired, but that events of the past 24 hours are surly Mensa-worthy\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asphaltandrubber.com\/oped\/polaris-harley-davidson-indian-gambit\/#more-21153\" 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>Before yesterday afternoon, I had a hard time getting excited about Polaris. I think they make snowmobiles\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure. This is how engaged with their brands I was, but of course this has all changed with the news that Polaris Industries, Inc. has acquired Indian Motorcycle for still undisclosed terms. Covering the business strategy [&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-48230","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\/48230","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=48230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48232,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48230\/revisions\/48232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}