{"id":1636,"date":"2009-05-29T05:30:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/1636\/meet-five-entrepreneurs-who-are-succeeding-in-tough-times-pacific-business-news\/"},"modified":"2009-05-29T05:30:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T13:30:07","slug":"meet-five-entrepreneurs-who-are-succeeding-in-tough-times-pacific-business-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/1636\/meet-five-entrepreneurs-who-are-succeeding-in-tough-times-pacific-business-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet five entrepreneurs who are succeeding in tough times &#8211; Pacific Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/pacific.bizjournals.com\/pacific\/stories\/2009\/06\/01\/story17.html?b=1243828800^1836817'>Meet five entrepreneurs who are succeeding in tough times &#8211; Pacific Business News<\/a><br \/>PBN editors and reporters brainstormed ideas for spotlighting some of these good-news stories and found it to be a relatively easy task to come up with companies that were hiring, expanding and profiting even as the Hawaii economy sputtered<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/blogs.timesunion.com\/business\/?p=13056'>The Buzz: Business news &#8211; Times Union Blogs<\/a><br \/>The Empire State Development Corp. sent out letters this week to more than 6,400 of the 8,000 companies in the Empire Zones program notifying them they remain qualified for the tax breaks that come with the program. About 51 local companies were   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet five entrepreneurs who are succeeding in tough times &#8211; Pacific Business NewsPBN editors and reporters brainstormed ideas for spotlighting some of these good-news stories and found it to be a relatively easy task to come up with companies that were hiring, expanding and profiting even as the Hawaii economy sputtered The Buzz: Business news &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/1636\/meet-five-entrepreneurs-who-are-succeeding-in-tough-times-pacific-business-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meet five entrepreneurs who are succeeding in tough times &#8211; Pacific Business News<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}