{"id":26,"date":"2008-03-02T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/sports-branding-jerry-buss-on-the-lakers\/"},"modified":"2014-07-08T09:41:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T16:41:47","slug":"jerry-buss-on-the-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/jerry-buss-on-the-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Buss On The Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment -->Jerry Buss on the Lakers and Los Angeles:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One of the first things I tried to do when I bought the team was to make it an identification for this city, like Motown in Detroit,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I try to keep that identification alive. I&#8217;m a real Angeleno. I want us to be part of the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment --> &#8220;Los Angeles is about diversity, and so are the Lakers,&#8221; he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Jerry Buss On The Lakers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/la-sp-plaschke2mar02,1,1020968.column\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Buss on the Lakers and Los Angeles: &#8220;One of the first things I tried to do when I bought the team was to make it an identification for this city, like Motown in Detroit,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I try to keep that identification alive. I&#8217;m a real Angeleno. I want us to be part of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/jerry-buss-on-the-lakers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jerry Buss On The Lakers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentscarcliff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}