{"id":13434,"date":"2025-12-27T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=13434"},"modified":"2026-01-09T17:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:34:59","slug":"the-week-december-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=13434","title":{"rendered":"The Week (December 24)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe economic slump has affected several iconic American brands.\u201d Brown-Forman, the company that owns Jack Daniel\u2019s, Old Forester and Woodford Reserve is \u201claying off about 650 employees, or 12% of its workforce, in the face of declining demand.\u201d Other brands have fallen into receivership. \u201cBut Jim Beam has taken perhaps the most extreme move by announcing it would halt production at the plant\u2019s main distillery in Clermont, Kentucky, for an entire year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe economic slump has affected several iconic American brands.\u201d Brown-Forman, the company that owns Jack Daniel\u2019s, Old Forester and Woodford Reserve is \u201claying off about 650 employees, or 12% of its workforce, in the face of declining demand.\u201d Other brands have fallen into receivership. \u201cBut Jim Beam has taken perhaps the most extreme move by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,17460,17459,17461,15069,1443,10083,17457,17458,3643,13855,8,3036],"class_list":["post-13434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-brands","tag-brown-forman","tag-declining-demand","tag-distillery","tag-economic-slump","tag-employees","tag-halt","tag-iconic","tag-jack-daniels","tag-production","tag-receivership","tag-u-s","tag-workforce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13435,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434\/revisions\/13435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}