{"id":14508,"date":"2015-10-30T14:57:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T19:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=14508"},"modified":"2015-10-30T14:58:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T19:58:42","slug":"espn-shutting-down-grantland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=14508","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Shutting Down Grantland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though <a href=\"http:\/\/grantland.com\/\">the site itself<\/a> is still up, EPSN has announced that it is <a href=\"http:\/\/my.chicagotribune.com\/#section\/-1\/article\/p2p-84876590\/\">shutting down Grantland<\/a>, it&#8217;s longform sports and pop-culture essay site.<\/p>\n<p>Which is a shame, since Grantland sucked considerably less than ESPN&#8217;s regular site, which TO READ THE REST OF THIS SENTENCE, SIGN UP TO BECOME AN ESPN INSIDER! Grantland did a lot of interesting, in-depth analytics stuff and essays that were actually worth reading. <\/p>\n<p>This is probably part of parent company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/cost-cutting-is-coming-to-espn-2015-7\">Disney&#8217;s program of cost-cutting at ESPN<\/a>, despite the network being their undisputed cash cow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the site itself is still up, EPSN has announced that it is shutting down Grantland, it&#8217;s longform sports and pop-culture essay site. Which is a shame, since Grantland sucked considerably less than ESPN&#8217;s regular site, which TO READ THE REST OF THIS SENTENCE, SIGN UP TO BECOME AN ESPN INSIDER! Grantland did a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":13,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,66],"tags":[1985,1750,255,1981,636],"class_list":["post-14508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-football","tag-basketball","tag-disney","tag-espn","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14513,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508\/revisions\/14513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}