creating issue on classic mode hits bulk analytics url which blows up

POST /rest/analytics/1.0/publish/bulk HTTP/1.1
Host: gdog.jira-dev.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: https://gdog.jira-dev.com/secure/VersionBoard.jspa?selectedBoardId=10300&selectedProjectId=10002&type=VB&start=0
Content-Length: 998
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Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

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