{"id":157523,"date":"2026-09-02T18:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/09\/02\/the-nets-almost-became-the-swamp-dragons-in-the-90s-now-theyre-hosting-a-night-to-celebrate-it-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T18:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:06:28","slug":"the-nets-almost-became-the-swamp-dragons-in-the-90s-now-theyre-hosting-a-night-to-celebrate-it-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/09\/02\/the-nets-almost-became-the-swamp-dragons-in-the-90s-now-theyre-hosting-a-night-to-celebrate-it-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nets almost became the Swamp Dragons in the \u201990s. Now they\u2019re hosting a night to celebrate it &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilAFBVV95cUxQc3hSUjFwZTIxRFhJMmFCNWo3Y3poWENyVENROWpyWkRQVmdCZmt0Ynh2Z0NnbzV6VlFRYWtoZHNkMFhkUl8xYlotdXZoWmpxTDlnSkpzOTVmTWNjSkVETFF4UkdRdVNfcDQyOGtHNWNjS2twN3NLSFV6R2M4OUpNTk9kZFVyUHlGWnRpVHMwUFpTX1dn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">The Nets almost became the Swamp Dragons in the \u201990s. Now they\u2019re hosting a night to celebrate it<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The New York Times<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nets almost became the Swamp Dragons in the \u201990s. Now they\u2019re hosting a night to celebrate it&nbsp;&nbsp;The New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}