{"id":193981,"date":"2008-11-03T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/03\/the-state-of-our-auto-industry\/"},"modified":"2008-11-03T00:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T05:13:00","slug":"the-state-of-our-auto-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/03\/the-state-of-our-auto-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of Our Auto Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been reported that the <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/10\/31\/news\/companies\/gm_chrysler\/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote\">Treasury Department has refused to use bailout money to fund a merger of GM and Chrysler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Ford&#8217;s response to the current collapse of auto sales is that it&#8217;s going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/31\/business\/31ford.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">try and make cars that people want to buy, and then sell them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You know, Ford&#8217;s plan is so crazy, it might just work&#8230;Or perhaps it&#8217;s just some sort of socialism doomed to fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been reported that the Treasury Department has refused to use bailout money to fund a merger of GM and Chrysler. Interestingly enough, Ford&#8217;s response to the current collapse of auto sales is that it&#8217;s going to try and make cars that people want to buy, and then sell them. You know, Ford&#8217;s plan &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}