{"id":1223,"date":"2004-08-05T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-05T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2018-08-13T07:12:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T12:12:32","slug":"1223","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/05\/1223\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch from the Sports Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of a ballot initiative to prevent sale of the naming rights to Candlestick Park, a San Francisco 49ers <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/08\/05\/BAG6L8212730.DTL\" target=\"_new\">offers this level-headed and non-hyperbolic assessment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think putting this on the ballot has catastrophic consequences for the future of Candlestick Park and the future of professional sports in San Francisco,&#8221; said 49ers spokesman Sam Singer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps he needs a reminder of what a catastrophe is.<\/p>\n<p>But should one even hope for better from a spokesman for a team with gold-digging right in the name?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of a ballot initiative to prevent sale of the naming rights to Candlestick Park, a San Francisco 49ers offers this level-headed and non-hyperbolic assessment: &#8220;I think putting this on the ballot has catastrophic consequences for the future of Candlestick Park and the future of professional sports in San Francisco,&#8221; said 49ers spokesman Sam Singer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22991,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/22991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}