{"id":6952,"date":"2009-03-31T21:15:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T04:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6952"},"modified":"2009-03-31T21:17:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T04:17:55","slug":"motorcycle-motorcycle-industry-during-economic-meltdown-tough-times-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6952","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle &#8211; Motorcycle Industry During Economic Meltdown &#8211; Tough Times Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Economic Meltdown Is Affecting Everyone<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Unless you&#8217;ve been living in a cave for the past 6 months, it&#8217;s been pretty difficult for a day to go by without hearing yet more gloomy news on the economy. And for many of us, it hasn&#8217;t been just watching\/reading news or water cooler conversation&#8211;it&#8217;s been a brutal, harsh reality. Like most big corporations, SR&#8217;s parent publishing company has trimmed staff down to skeletal levels, and a few friends outside the magazine have been let go after years of service by their respective companies. For quite a few of us, the New Year was rung in with, &#8220;So long 2008, don&#8217;t let the door hit you on your way out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nowhere in the motorcycle industry has the economic meltdown been felt more severely than with&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportrider.com\/features\/146_0904_motorcycle_industry_economic_meltdown\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3701066?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic Meltdown Is Affecting Everyone Unless you&#8217;ve been living in a cave for the past 6 months, it&#8217;s been pretty difficult for a day to go by without hearing yet more gloomy news on the economy. And for many of us, it hasn&#8217;t been just watching\/reading news or water cooler conversation&#8211;it&#8217;s been a brutal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,8,44,45,46,68,47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motocross","category-motorcycle","category-new-motorcycle-products-tests","category-off-road-dirt-track","category-roadracing","category-scooters","category-street-riding","category-stunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952","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=6952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6955,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions\/6955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}