{"id":6366,"date":"2015-02-25T11:37:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2015-03-01T11:42:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T18:42:04","slug":"the-best-new-soccer-stadium-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/25\/the-best-new-soccer-stadium-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best New Soccer Stadium In America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/earthquakes\/ci_27603808\/is-earthquakes-new-stadium-best-soccer-venue-america\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The San Jose Mercury News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Is Earthquakes&#8217; new stadium best soccer venue in America?<\/h1>\n<p><em>By Elliott Almond<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"tout_embed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tout.com\/embed\/touts\/ds7tdp\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center>SAN JOSE &#8212; It started almost 2 1\/2 years ago when 6,256 soccer fans grabbed blue-bladed shovels to break ground at a long forgotten lot just west of Mineta San Jose International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting European-style soccer stadium that lurches 75 feet skyward in sight of Interstate 880 and Highway 87 could become the envy of teams around the country &#8212; and a mecca for the region&#8217;s growing base of futbol aficionados.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the San Jose Earthquakes will christen Avaya Stadium, a privately funded, 18,000-seat venue that club officials hope transforms a once-niche sport into something that rivals baseball, basketball and football.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/earthquakes\/ci_27603808\/is-earthquakes-new-stadium-best-soccer-venue-america\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at SJ Merc<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The San Jose Mercury News Is Earthquakes&#8217; new stadium best soccer venue in America? By Elliott Almond SAN JOSE &#8212; It started almost 2 1\/2 years ago when 6,256 soccer fans grabbed blue-bladed shovels to break ground at a long forgotten lot just west of Mineta San Jose International Airport. The resulting European-style soccer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}