{"id":2513,"date":"2016-07-18T22:52:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T03:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2016-07-18T22:52:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T03:52:13","slug":"the-boston-red-soxs-fenway-park-goes-it-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2513","title":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox&#8217;s Fenway Park Goes It Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What the Red Sox have done with Fenway Park should be a lesson for every sports franchise and municipality in the country. The argument from pro sports teams is always the same: We need a new billion-dollar stadium (paid for with your tax dollars) to remain &#8220;economically competitive.&#8221; The Red Sox have not only turned that argument on its head, but shown how truly disingenuous it is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052748703426004575338773305482494\">The Boston Red Sox&#8217;s Fenway Park Goes It Alone | By Mark Yost &#8211; WSJ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the Red Sox have done with Fenway Park should be a lesson for every sports franchise and municipality in the country. The argument from pro sports teams is always the same: We need a new billion-dollar stadium (paid for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2513\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[144],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}