{"id":52,"date":"2009-04-13T17:13:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T22:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulschwake.com\/paulsblog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2010-03-31T09:35:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:35:26","slug":"a-thought-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"A Thought Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GM looks to be possibly nearing its point of no return (bankruptcy may be its only option now).\u00a0 But, what if someone else stepped in at this point?\u00a0 Let\u2019s say Toyota stepped in and bought a controlling stake in GM, and supplanted GM\u2019s leaders with those of its own.\u00a0 Then those leaders did away with all the traditional GM ways that resulted in its current situation, or least cut back on as many as possible.\u00a0 It could be a turning point for GM, keeping them out of bankruptcy and even, best case scenario, putting them back in the black at some point.\u00a0 You have your doubts?\u00a0 It\u2019s been done before, in very recent times, with the same skepticism.\u00a0 Check it out for yourself.\u00a0 Web search for \u201cNissan Renault Ghosn bankruptcy\u201d and start reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GM looks to be possibly nearing its point of no return (bankruptcy may be its only option now).\u00a0 But, what if someone else stepped in at this point?\u00a0 Let\u2019s say Toyota stepped in and bought a controlling stake in GM, and supplanted GM\u2019s leaders with those of its own.\u00a0 Then those leaders did away with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}