{"id":238,"date":"2010-01-27T13:44:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2010-01-27T14:08:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:08:48","slug":"credit-where-credit-is-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/27\/credit-where-credit-is-due\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Where Credit Is Due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some might attribute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20100127\/BUSINESS01\/1270321\/1322\/GM-to-keep-Saab-alive-via-Spyker\">yesterday&#8217;s miraculous eleventh-hour rescue of Saab<\/a> from the jaws of oblivion to divine intervention, some to the remarkable <a href=\"http:\/\/firebirdman.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/evidence-that-god-is-listening-or-just.html\">worldwide demonstrations of customer loyalty<\/a> over the past month, some to the Swedish government&#8217;s finally stepping in to back up the loan money, some to the indefatigable efforts of Spyker chief\u2014that &#8220;tall, Dutch optimist,&#8221; in the words of a friend\u2014Victor Muller in closing the deal. I prefer to think it was the <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ebaymotors\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=320470303582\">&#8220;Save Saab&#8221; sticker<\/a> affixed to my bass last week on national network television that clinched it.<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/embed\/N6RysSMVOiCKpujfHwKh0A\/2259\/2501\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"  width=\"480\" height=\"278\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some might attribute yesterday&#8217;s miraculous eleventh-hour rescue of Saab from the jaws of oblivion to divine intervention, some to the remarkable worldwide demonstrations of customer loyalty over the past month, some to the Swedish government&#8217;s finally stepping in to back up the loan money, some to the indefatigable efforts of Spyker chief\u2014that &#8220;tall, Dutch optimist,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30,33,14,31,32],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pimpin","tag-firebird-man","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-mountain-goats","tag-saab","tag-victor-muller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}