{"id":184914,"date":"2024-03-11T12:23:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/once-high-flying-smiledirectclub-valued-at-8-9-billion-just-4-years-ago-to-shut-down-after-last-minute-push-to-save-it-collapses"},"modified":"2024-03-11T12:23:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:23:05","slug":"once-high-flying-smiledirectclub-valued-at-8-9-billion-just-4-years-ago-to-shut-down-after-last-minute-push-to-save-it-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/once-high-flying-smiledirectclub-valued-at-8-9-billion-just-4-years-ago-to-shut-down-after-last-minute-push-to-save-it-collapses","title":{"rendered":"Once high-flying SmileDirectClub, valued at $8.9 billion just 4 years ago, to shut down after last-minute push to save it collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/once-high-flying-smiledirectclub-valued-at-8-9-billion-just-4-years-ago-to-shut-down-after-last-minute-push-to-save-it-collapses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company, which filed for bankruptcy in September, had been negotiating a deal for its founders to provide fresh capital and buy it out of Chapter 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company, which filed for bankruptcy in September, had been negotiating a deal for its founders to provide fresh capital and buy it out of Chapter 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}