{"id":602,"date":"2013-05-04T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/?p=602"},"modified":"2013-05-04T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T02:35:00","slug":"despite-layoffs-thomasville-still-chair-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/despite-layoffs-thomasville-still-chair-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Layoffs, Thomasville Still &#034;Chair City&#034;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the city faces the end of an era, city promoters don&#8217;t feel it&#8217;s the end of Thomasville being known as a furniture town.<\/p>\n<p>      <!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p>Thomasville, NC &#8212; With the loss of nearly 300 jobs at Thomasville Furniture Industries, also comes the loss of a way of life.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nCompany leaders announced when they close Plant-D in Thomasville in July, it&#8217;ll mark the end of the company&#8217;s furniture manufacturing in that city.<\/p>\n<p>People identify Thomasville with furniture. It&#8217;s called the &#8220;Chair City&#8221; for that reason.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the city faces the end of an era, city promoters don&#8217;t feel it&#8217;s the end of Thomasville being known as a furniture town.<\/p>\n<p>While the manufacturing leaves Thomasville the company&#8217;s headquaters will remain. Company leaders say they did not want to end manufactuing there, but they say competition over seas gave them no choice.<\/p>\n<p>WFMY News 2<br \/>\nJonathan Lowe , Web Producer \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the city faces the end of an era, city promoters don&#8217;t feel it&#8217;s the end of Thomasville being known as a furniture town. Thomasville, NC &#8212; With the loss of nearly 300 jobs at Thomasville Furniture Industries, also comes the loss of a way of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}