{"id":8499,"date":"2012-12-07T11:34:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T17:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=8499"},"modified":"2012-12-07T14:37:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T20:37:21","slug":"vikings-stadium-groundbreaking-oct-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=8499","title":{"rendered":"Vikings Stadium Groundbreaking, Oct 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Vikingsstaddrawing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4659\" title=\"Vikingsstaddrawing\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Vikingsstaddrawing-150x121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP Dec 7, 2012) \u00a0&#8211; Groundbreaking for the new Minnesota Vikings stadium is tentatively set for October 2013.<br \/>\nMinnesota Sports Facilities Authority Chairwoman Michele Kelm-Helgen announced the date at Friday&#8217;s board meeting.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The $975 million stadium will be built on the site of the<br \/>\nMetrodome in downtown Minneapolis.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The date is a bit later that the timetable previously mentioned by authority and team officials. They initially projected groundbreaking to take<br \/>\nplace sometime during the third quarter of 2013.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But Kelm-Helgen says both the Vikings and the authority &#8220;are<br \/>\ngood&#8221; with the timeframe.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Vikings hope to open the new stadium in time for the 2016<br \/>\nseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP Dec 7, 2012) \u00a0&#8211; Groundbreaking for the new Minnesota Vikings stadium is tentatively set for October 2013. Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority Chairwoman Michele Kelm-Helgen announced the date at Friday&#8217;s board meeting. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The $975 million stadium will be built on the site of the Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8500,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8499\/revisions\/8500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}