{"id":23929,"date":"2016-04-10T15:33:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T19:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=23929"},"modified":"2016-04-11T15:55:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:55:04","slug":"hits-keep-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=23929","title":{"rendered":"Hits keep coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strike><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Charlotte, NC \u2014 NBA Commissioner Adam Silver held a press conference today, announcing that Charlotte, North Carolina will no longer be hosting the 2017 All-Star game due to the state\u2019s recent passing of the anti-LGBT law HB2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this new law in place, Charlotte currently does not have any anti-discrimination protection in place, something that would be vital for a large event such as the All-Star Game,\u201d Silver told reporters. \u201cWe are giving the state of North Carolina 30 days to repeal this law or they can expect the 2017 All-Star game to be held elsewhere. I want to make it clear that the NBA will not stand for this type of intolerance and hate.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.com.co\/nba-cancels-all-star-game-in-north-carolina-lgbt-hb2\/\">ABC News<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strike><\/p>\n<p>Drat. Duped. <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/fake-news-site-nba-north-carolina-anto-gay\">FAKE!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte, NC \u2014 NBA Commissioner Adam Silver held a press conference today, announcing that Charlotte, North Carolina will no longer be hosting the 2017 All-Star game due to the state\u2019s recent passing of the anti-LGBT law HB2. \u201cWith this new law in place, Charlotte currently does not have any anti-discrimination protection in place, something that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23938,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23929\/revisions\/23938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}