{"id":22306,"date":"2013-07-03T14:42:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T18:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22306"},"modified":"2013-07-03T14:42:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T18:42:05","slug":"carmelo-opens-refurbished-basketball-court-in-old-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22306","title":{"rendered":"Carmelo Opens Refurbished Basketball Court In Old Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Carmelo Anthony<\/strong> isn\u2019t one to forget where he came from. The NBA All-Star returned to his old home to open two newly refurbished basketball courts in the Red Hook Houses, where the player spent his early childhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really, honestly, a dream come true,\u201d <strong>Anthony<\/strong> said. The Carmelo Anthony Foundation and JPMorgan Chase funded the courts\u2019 repaving, repainting and fixes to the surrounding fence, and added new logos and a paint job to the backboards and rims.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of men, women and young players gathered around the courts at the Red Hook East Houses at 62 Mill St., some standing on the sidelines, while others pressed against the fences under the sweltering sun, just to get a glimpse of the NBA superstar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carmelo Anthony isn\u2019t one to forget where he came from. The NBA All-Star returned to his old home to open two newly refurbished basketball courts in the Red Hook Houses, where the player spent his early childhood. \u201cIt\u2019s really, honestly, a dream come true,\u201d Anthony said. The Carmelo Anthony Foundation and JPMorgan Chase funded the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}