{"id":18,"date":"2007-02-16T08:33:28","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T08:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=18"},"modified":"2007-02-16T08:33:28","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T08:33:28","slug":"liverpool-fc-bought-by-american-sports-moguls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/liverpool-fc-bought-by-american-sports-moguls\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool FC bought by American sports moguls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool soccer club has just been sold to American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks. The pair already own a number of sports franchises with Hicks owning the NHL&#8221;s Dallas Stars and Major League Baseball&#8221;s Texas Rangers and Gillett owning the Montreal Canadiens. This whole affair begs the question: who the hell becomes a sports franchise tycoon? They don&#8221;t make a video game for that.<br \/>\nBBC Sports <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/teams\/l\/liverpool\/6323037.stm\">article<\/a> on the buyout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool soccer club has just been sold to American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks. The pair already own a number of sports franchises&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[58,333],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-business","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}