{"id":1637,"date":"2005-08-02T06:57:25","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T06:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2005-08-02T06:57:25","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T06:57:25","slug":"atkins_goes_bel_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1637","title":{"rendered":"Atkins Goes Belly-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/business\/2005\/08\/01\/atkins-diet-bankruptcy-cx_mn_0801atkins.html\">Michael Noer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Atkins Nutritionals, the New York company founded in 1989 by the late Dr. Robert Atkins to cash in on his low-carb diet, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday. The company cited weakening demand for its products. Ironically, the Atkins diet&#8211;affectionately known by some as the &ldquo;cheeseburger-hold-the-bun&rdquo; diet&#8211;had been blamed in recent years for earnings shortfalls in companies ranging from Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (nyse: KKD &#8211; news &#8211; people ) to Kraft Foods (nyse: KFT &#8211; news &#8211; people ) to Interstate Bakeries (the maker of Wonder Bread and Twinkies). <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Noer: Atkins Nutritionals, the New York company founded in 1989 by the late Dr. Robert Atkins to cash in on his low-carb diet, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday. The company cited weakening demand for its products. Ironically, the Atkins diet&#8211;affectionately known by some as the &ldquo;cheeseburger-hold-the-bun&rdquo; diet&#8211;had been blamed in recent years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}