{"id":20792,"date":"2011-02-23T07:07:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T12:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20792"},"modified":"2011-02-23T07:07:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T12:07:51","slug":"blockbuster-seeks-to-go-on-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2011\/blockbuster-seeks-to-go-on-block.html","title":{"rendered":"Blockbuster seeks to go on block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blockbuster Inc. is preparing to put itself up for sale after creditors disagreed on plans to give the movie-rental chain more cash to help it exit bankruptcy protection, people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>Blockbuster now plans to seek buyers instead of reorganizing in bankruptcy court and could ask a judge to approve bidding procedures for the company as soon as next week, the people said. Creditors including billionaire investor Carl Icahn and a consortium led by hedge fund Monarch Alternative Capital LP are leading contenders to buy the chain out of bankruptcy court, the people said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/02\/21\/blockbuster-seeks-to-go-on-block\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockbuster Inc. is preparing to put itself up for sale after creditors disagreed on plans to give the movie-rental chain more cash to help it exit bankruptcy protection, people familiar with the matter said. Blockbuster now plans to seek buyers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20793,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20792\/revisions\/20793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}