{"id":994,"date":"2008-04-16T17:23:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T17:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.hothardware.com:\/\/c672006be9480734c1100a9d9b33acf2"},"modified":"2008-04-16T17:23:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T17:23:41","slug":"blockbuster-to-circuit-city-group-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"Blockbuster To Circuit City: Group Suicide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blockbuster is offering to buy Circuit City. They made the offer privately in February, and made it publicly today; a defacto appeal to Circuit City shareholders to pressure the board to sell. If you were on the Lusitania, would you accept a ride on the Titanic?&nbsp; Circuit City is struggling, Blockbuster&nbsp; still has rental-movie money to throw around, but can read the video-on-demand writing on the wall. Let&#8217;s play Corporate-Speak Bingo with Chairman and CEO of Blockbuster Jim Keyes&#8217; statement. &#8220;Our proposal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockbuster is offering to buy Circuit City. They made the offer privately in February, and made it publicly today; a defacto appeal to Circuit City shareholders to pressure the board to sell. If you were on the Lusitania, would you accept a ride on the Titanic?&nbsp; Circuit City is struggling, Blockbuster&nbsp; still has rental-movie money to throw around, but can read the video-on-demand writing on the wall. Let&#8217;s play Corporate-Speak Bingo with Chairman and CEO of Blockbuster Jim Keyes&#8217; statement. &#8220;Our proposal <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=994\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}