{"id":12682,"date":"2017-08-25T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2017\/08\/25\/racial-conflict-draws-boxing-fans-to-mayweather-mcgregor-fight\/"},"modified":"2017-08-25T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T20:33:00","slug":"racial-conflict-draws-boxing-fans-to-mayweather-mcgregor-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/racial-conflict-draws-boxing-fans-to-mayweather-mcgregor-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial Conflict Draws Boxing Fans To Mayweather-McGregor Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/08\/25\/546186303\/racial-conflict-draws-boxing-fans-to-mayweather-mcgregor-fight?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/facebook-default-wide.jpg?s=1400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Almost everyone agrees that the much-hyped boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and MMA champ Conor McGregor will not be much of a fight. But fans will shell out an estimated half a billion dollars to watch. NPR&#8217;s Robert Siegel talks with sports columnist Adam Kilgore of <em>The Washington Post<\/em> about the fight.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/08\/25\/546186303\/racial-conflict-draws-boxing-fans-to-mayweather-mcgregor-fight?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Racial Conflict Draws Boxing Fans To Mayweather-McGregor Fight\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/08\/25\/546186303\/racial-conflict-draws-boxing-fans-to-mayweather-mcgregor-fight?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/08\/25\/546186303\/racial-conflict-draws-boxing-fans-to-mayweather-mcgregor-fight?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/facebook-default-wide.jpg?s=1400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Almost everyone agrees that the much-hyped boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and MMA champ Conor McGregor will not be much of a fight. But fans will shell out an estimated half a billion dollars to watch. NPR&#8217;s Robert Siegel talks with sports columnist Adam Kilgore of <em>The Washington Post<\/em> about the fight.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}