{"id":1292,"date":"2015-09-22T14:19:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T21:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2015-09-22T14:29:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T21:29:41","slug":"five-years-ago-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2015\/09\/22\/five-years-ago-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Five years ago this week&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the goals of bringing this site back\u00a0is to make the point that there was indeed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pge092110-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1293 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pge092110-8-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"pge092110-8\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pge092110-8-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pge092110-8-128x86.jpg 128w, https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pge092110-8-32x21.jpg 32w, https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pge092110-8.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>soccer in Portland before 2011, and\u00a0my first dive into the subject goes back to five years ago this week, September 21, 2010, when ground was broken on the renovation of (then called) PGE Park into what became JELD-WEN Field and now Providence Park.<\/p>\n<p>John Strong was the MC and\u00a0Don Garber, Nick Fish, \u00a0and Randy Leonard were there along with Merritt Paulson and Timber Joey for the groundbreaking.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing that it&#8217;s really been five years, and though I love the new MLS-upgraded stadium, I do miss PGE Park and all it&#8217;s quirks at times.<\/p>\n<p>All of the photos I posted that day can be seen here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soccercityusa.pdxcite.net\/timbers\/pge092110.htm\">http:\/\/soccercityusa.pdxcite.net\/timbers\/pge092110.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the goals of bringing this site back\u00a0is to make the point that there was indeed soccer in Portland before 2011, and\u00a0my first dive into the subject goes back to five years ago this week, September 21, 2010, when ground was broken on the renovation of (then called) PGE Park into what became JELD-WEN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-timbers-usl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pge092110-8.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}