{"id":13155,"date":"2009-06-03T15:45:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T15:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_profile_of_gm_after_many_stumbles_the_fall_of_a_giant\/"},"modified":"2009-06-03T15:45:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T15:45:45","slug":"a_profile_of_gm_after_many_stumbles_the_fall_of_a_giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13155","title":{"rendered":"A Profile of GM: After Many Stumbles, the Fall of a Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a company that helped lift hundreds of thousands of American workers into the middle class. It transformed Detroit into the Silicon Valley of its day, a symbol of America\u2019s talent for innovation. It built celebrated cars, like Cadillacs, that became synonymous with luxury.<\/p>\n<p>And now it is filing for bankruptcy, something that would have been unfathomable even a few years ago, much less decades ago, when it was a dominant force in the American economy.<\/p>\n<p>Rarely has a company fallen so far and so fast as General Motors. And while its bankruptcy appeared increasingly likely in recent weeks, the arrival of the moment is still a staggering blow, particularly for anyone with ties to the company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/01\/business\/01downfall.html?_r=1&#038;scp=1&#038;sq=after%20many%20stumbles,%20the%20fall%20of%20an%20american%20giant&#038;st=cse\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a company that helped lift hundreds of thousands of American workers into the middle class. It transformed Detroit into the Silicon Valley of its day, a symbol of America\u2019s talent for innovation. It built celebrated cars, like Cadillacs,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13155\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,589,149,596,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-possibility-of-a-bailout-for-the-u-s-auto-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}