{"id":60531,"date":"2012-02-15T20:37:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T03:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=60531"},"modified":"2012-02-15T20:37:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T03:37:19","slug":"for-sale-ducati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=60531","title":{"rendered":"For Sale: Ducati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Got an extra $1.34 billion dollars in your checking account? Already have your own 400-foot carbon fiber sailboat and put a down payment on your moon-base condo? Why not buy a certain Italian motorcycle manufacturer? According to the Financial Times, the 86-year-old company is for sale, just six years after its purchase by private equity group Investindustrial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Investindustrial\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chairman Andrea Bonomi told the Times \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ducati is now a perfect company but the further growth it requires needs the support of a world-class industrial partner\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6this year, we will\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycledaily.com\/2012\/02\/for-sale-ducati\/\" 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>Got an extra $1.34 billion dollars in your checking account? Already have your own 400-foot carbon fiber sailboat and put a down payment on your moon-base condo? Why not buy a certain Italian motorcycle manufacturer? According to the Financial Times, the 86-year-old company is for sale, just six years after its purchase by private equity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-motorcycle","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60531","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=60531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60533,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60531\/revisions\/60533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}