{"id":2198,"date":"2013-07-09T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sharks-home-arena-renamed-sap-center\/"},"modified":"2013-07-09T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T20:20:00","slug":"sharks-home-arena-renamed-sap-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sharks-home-arena-renamed-sap-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks&#8217; home arena renamed SAP Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The San Jose Sharks have announced a name change to their home arena from HP Pavilion to the SAP Center.<\/p>\n<p>SAP, the software company, announced it will bring breakthrough technology to the arena. In a joint announcement, SAP and the Sharks said the technology, will be &#8220;designed to elevate the arena as a shining example of Silicon Valley innovation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some of that technology the Sharks will aim at will be to provide real-time news alerts to fans, player and team insight and analysis, purchase of concessions and merchandise from mobile devices, and also to reward fans with targeted promotions.<\/p>\n<p>SAP purchased the naming rights in a five-year deal worth over $8.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>The arena, which opened in September 1993 and has been nicknamed the Shark Tank, has gone a few name changes. Prior to the name HP Pavilion, it was called the Compaq Center.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Sharks, the building is also home to the San Jose Sabercats of the Arena Football League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The San Jose Sharks have announced a name change to their home arena from HP Pavilion to the SAP Center. SAP, the software company, announced it will bring breakthrough technology to the arena. In a joint announcement, SAP and the Sharks said the technology, will be &#8220;designed to elevate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}