{"id":5530,"date":"2013-09-26T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/panthers-to-announce-ownership-change\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T02:45:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T02:45:10","slug":"panthers-to-announce-ownership-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/panthers-to-announce-ownership-change\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL&#8217;s Panthers to announce ownership change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunrise, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Florida Panthers have scheduled a news conference for Friday, at which time the club is expected to announce a change of ownership.<\/p>\n<p>According to numerous media outlets, including the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, New York businessman Vincent Viola has purchased the franchise and the operation of the BB&amp;T Center for $250 million from a group headed by Cliff Viner.<\/p>\n<p>Viola, a former minority owner of the NBA&#8217;s Nets before moving to Brooklyn, will reportedly become the sole owner of the Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>Viner&#8217;s group took over the Panthers in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunrise, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Florida Panthers have scheduled a news conference for Friday, at which time the club is expected to announce a change of ownership. According to numerous media outlets, including the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, New York businessman Vincent Viola has purchased the franchise and the operation of the BB&amp;T Center for [&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-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530","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=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5538,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions\/5538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}