{"id":1780,"date":"2005-09-19T20:15:36","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T20:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2005-09-19T20:15:36","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T20:15:36","slug":"vikings_to_anno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1780","title":{"rendered":"Vikings to Announce a New Stadium Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.minnesota.publicradio.org\/features\/2005\/09\/19_williamsb_vikes\/?rsssource=1\">Brandt Williams<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>On Tuesday officials from the Minnesota Vikings and Anoka County will formally announce that they have reached an agreement for a new football stadium. The $675 million, retractable-roof stadium would be built on a 700-acre site in Blaine. The total cost of the project, with roads and other infrastructure, could be as much as $790 million. The Vikings are expected to contribute up to $280 million with the rest of the funding to come from Anoka County and state taxpayers.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>   I wonder if any NFC North team actually needs a new stadium, given the dreadful outlook this fall.  Perhaps they will all finish 3-13?  Beyond that, I&#8217;m sure we can use this money in much better ways, than by subsidizing the rich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandt Williams: On Tuesday officials from the Minnesota Vikings and Anoka County will formally announce that they have reached an agreement for a new football stadium. The $675 million, retractable-roof stadium would be built on a 700-acre site in Blaine. The total cost of the project, with roads and other infrastructure, could be as much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,9,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}