{"id":226753,"date":"2019-05-24T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/bmw-posts-a-smart-sendoff-for-longtime-mercedes-chief-5\/"},"modified":"2019-05-24T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:00:00","slug":"bmw-posts-a-smart-sendoff-for-longtime-mercedes-chief-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/bmw-posts-a-smart-sendoff-for-longtime-mercedes-chief-5\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW posts a smart sendoff for longtime Mercedes chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1123251_bmw-posts-a-smart-sendoff-for-longtime-mercedes-chief\">feedback@highgearmedia.com (Bengt Halvorson)<\/a><\/span>  German humor, as is quite often pointed out, is no laughing matter. Which is precisely what makes this sendoff to Dieter Zetsche, who on Wednesday stepped down from his position as CEO of Daimler, so funny. In a BMW ad called \u201cretirement is about exploring your wide open future,\u201d Zetsche <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1123251_bmw-posts-a-smart-sendoff-for-longtime-mercedes-chief\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1123251_bmw-posts-a-smart-sendoff-for-longtime-mercedes-chief\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BMW posts a smart sendoff for longtime Mercedes chief\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1123251_bmw-posts-a-smart-sendoff-for-longtime-mercedes-chief<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German humor, as is quite often pointed out, is no laughing matter. Which is precisely what makes this sendoff to Dieter Zetsche, who on Wednesday stepped down from his position as CEO of Daimler, so funny. In a BMW ad called \u201cretirement is about exploring your wide open future,\u201d Zetsche <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1123251_bmw-posts-a-smart-sendoff-for-longtime-mercedes-chief\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greencarreports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}