{"id":696393,"date":"2026-04-03T19:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696393\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:03:18","slug":"memphis-mayor-paul-young-responds-to-lebron-james-comments-memphis-local-sports-business-food-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696393\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Mayor Paul Young responds to LeBron James comments &#8211; Memphis Local, Sports, Business &#038; Food News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/authors\/762\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Hardiman<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sans text-small text-light\">Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise reporter who focuses on government and politics. He began his career at the Tulsa World where he covered business and K-12 education. Hardiman came to Memphis in 2018 to join the Memphis Business Journal, covering government and economic development. He then served as the Commercial Appeal\u2019s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on the intersection of government, public policy, influence and how public dollars are spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samuel Hardiman Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise reporter who focuses on government and politics. He began his career&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,293,177,4070,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-696393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-grizzlies","10":"tag-memphis","11":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","12":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116342332113639273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}