{"id":2797,"date":"2000-12-18T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2000-12-18T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2000\/12\/18\/pokemon-slump-possible-cause-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2000-12-18T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2000-12-18T14:52:00","slug":"pokemon-slump-possible-cause-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/pokemon-slump-possible-cause-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon Slump Possible Cause Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collectable trading card game manufacturers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/news\/pressrelease.asp?20001215b\" target=\"_blank\">Wizards of the Coast<\/a> have confirmed that approximately 100 employees have been laid off in a company reorganization. Hasbro, the parent company of Wizards of the Coast, has had a bad year with slumping stock prices.  Recently Hasbro agreed to sell its Hasbro Interactive and games.com divisions to the French company Infogrames. According to industry reports, &#8220;faltering sales of Pokemon trading cards could push the company into the red.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collectable trading card game manufacturers Wizards of the Coast have confirmed that approximately 100 employees have been laid off in a company reorganization. Hasbro, the parent company of Wizards of the Coast, has had a bad year with slumping stock prices. Recently Hasbro agreed to sell its Hasbro Interactive and games.com divisions to the French [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}