{"id":61878,"date":"2012-03-16T20:44:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T03:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=61878"},"modified":"2012-03-16T20:44:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T03:44:21","slug":"motorcycle-willie-g-davidson-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=61878","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle &#8211; Willie G. Davidson Retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the end of an era: after 49 years, Willie G. Davidson, Harley-Davidson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s styling chief, is retiring. The 78-year-old grandson of company co-founder William A Davidson will continue to represent the Motor Company as Brand Ambassador and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Chief Styling Officer Emeritus.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Whether you are a fan of the classic styling of HD products, or not, there is no denying the affable, beret-wearing Davidson had a huge impact on the USA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest motorcycle company\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand on the motorcycle industry worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Willie G. has seen Harley-Davidson evolve from\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycledaily.com\/2012\/03\/willie-g-davidson-retiring\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the end of an era: after 49 years, Willie G. Davidson, Harley-Davidson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s styling chief, is retiring. The 78-year-old grandson of company co-founder William A Davidson will continue to represent the Motor Company as Brand Ambassador and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Chief Styling Officer Emeritus.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Whether you are a fan of the classic styling of HD products, or not, [&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-61878","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\/61878","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=61878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61879,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61878\/revisions\/61879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}