{"id":8932,"date":"2015-07-27T02:36:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T02:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/?p=8932"},"modified":"2015-09-30T02:38:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T02:38:22","slug":"wheeler-dealer-rick-hendrick-life-lessons-in-the-car-bizthe-octane-lounge-july-27-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wheeler-dealer-rick-hendrick-life-lessons-in-the-car-bizthe-octane-lounge-july-27-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheeler dealer Rick Hendrick:<\/br>life lessons in the car biz<\/br>The Octane Lounge July 27, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Octane_Lounge_HENDRICK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Octane_Lounge_HENDRICK-121x300.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled-12.indd\" width=\"121\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Octane_Lounge_HENDRICK-121x300.jpg 121w, https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Octane_Lounge_HENDRICK.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 121px) 100vw, 121px\" \/><\/a>Overview<\/h2>\n<div>\nDon&#8217;t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media&#8217;s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they&#8217;re produced. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/contact-us\/\">here<\/a> to get started.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoctanelounge.com\">www.theoctanelounge.com<\/a> to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format.<\/p>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to be Rick Hendrick right about now.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s the founder of the Hendrick Automotive Group, which is the largest privately held automobile dealership in America and the sixth-largest overall. There are 95 dealerships in 13 states, representing 29 different automotive nameplates. In 2014, the company&#8217;s sales topped $7.5 billion, which is an impressive number that will go up this year. The Hendrick Automotive Group employs more than 10,000 people now. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/contact-us\/\">Please contact us to order this feature.<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to be Rick Hendrick right about now.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s the founder of the Hendrick Automotive Group, which is the largest privately held automobile dealership in America and the sixth-largest overall. There are 95 dealerships in 13 states, representing 29 different automotive nameplates. In 2014, the company&#8217;s sales topped $7.5 billion, which is an impressive number that will go up this year. The Hendrick Automotive Group employs more than 10,000 people now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-store-items","category-the-octane-lounge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8936,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932\/revisions\/8936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}