{"id":95018,"date":"2016-02-16T14:50:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T20:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=95018"},"modified":"2016-02-16T17:10:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T23:10:28","slug":"new-vikings-stadium-progressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=95018","title":{"rendered":"New Vikings stadium progressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Minn Viking Stadium video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/embed\/video?videoUrl=http:\/\/prod.video.vikings.clubs.nfl.com\/\/MIN\/videos\/dct\/video_audio\/2016\/02-February\/BuildingLegacy_Show4_Seg1-500k.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31580\" alt=\"vikingsstadium4\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/vikingsstadium41-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/vikingsstadium41-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/vikingsstadium41-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/vikingsstadium41-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/vikingsstadium41.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; The new home of the Minnesota Vikings is about 90 percent done.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/embed\/video?videoUrl=http:\/\/prod.video.vikings.clubs.nfl.com\/\/MIN\/videos\/dct\/video_audio\/2016\/02-February\/BuildingLegacy_Show4_Seg1-500k.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">VIDEO of new stadium.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Work on U.S. Bank Stadium is headed toward completion this summer, with a grand opening of the $1 billion-plus project scheduled for the first week in August.<\/p>\n<p>Team, stadium and construction officials led reporters on a tour Tuesday, revealing about two-thirds of the 65,000 purple seats installed and much of the space finished in the six club areas.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings locker room will be put together in the coming weeks. The five, large pivoting glass doors on the building&#8217;s front will be tested in April. The artificial turf will be laid in May.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings will play their first game there in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; The new home of the Minnesota Vikings is about 90 percent done. VIDEO of new stadium. Work on U.S. Bank Stadium is headed toward completion this summer, with a grand opening of the $1 billion-plus project scheduled for the first week in August. Team, stadium and construction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95018","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\/95018","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=95018"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95047,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95018\/revisions\/95047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}