{"id":11875,"date":"2012-11-18T19:28:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T23:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=11875"},"modified":"2012-11-27T19:29:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T23:29:35","slug":"payne-no-twinkie-bailout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/payne-no-twinkie-bailout","title":{"rendered":"Payne: No Twinkie Bailout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Humor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Washington, DC, AP<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; A $1.5 billion &#8220;Twinkie Bailout&#8221; to save Hostess Brands and 18,500 jobs fell apart Friday after President Obama&#8217;s Hostess Task Force could not come to terms with the Bakery Workers Union.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-billion dollar federal rescue was unpopular with Republicans in Congress &#8211; and with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg who blamed the company for obesity in America&#8217;s children. Hostess promised that it is developing a new, low-cal pastry called the Twinkie Volt. But the union admitted it could not guarantee delivery of Michigan and Ohio to Democrats in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let them go bankrupt,&#8221; said the president in a New York Times op-ed.<\/p>\n<p>The maker of Twinkies, Suzie Qs, Wonder Bread, and other iconic baked goods, the 82-year-old Hostess announced plans for liquidation. Industry experts said some of the company&#8217;s popular snack cake brands would likely be bought by other baked goods makers. But Mayor Bloomberg declared an immediate ban on Twinkies in New York City effective Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humor Washington, DC, AP\u00a0&#8211; A $1.5 billion &#8220;Twinkie Bailout&#8221; to save Hostess Brands and 18,500 jobs fell apart Friday after President Obama&#8217;s Hostess Task Force could not come to terms with the Bakery Workers Union. The multi-billion dollar federal rescue was unpopular with Republicans in Congress &#8211; and with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[2349,2350],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11876,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions\/11876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}