{"id":18322,"date":"2010-11-09T05:30:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T21:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/en\/?p=18322"},"modified":"2010-11-09T05:30:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T21:30:13","slug":"mercedes-benz-arena-unveiled-in-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2010\/11\/09\/18322\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz Arena Unveiled in Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Shanghai World Expo Culture Center has been reopened as the Mercedes-Benz Arena, the car giant's first sponsored entertainment arena outside Germany.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 18,000-seat arena, which includes 82 luxury boxes, is slated to feature world-class events including performing arts, sports, family entertainment, and is expected become a landmark in the city of Shanghai. It is seen as Shanghai's equivalent to venues such as London's O2 Arena and the Staples Center in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes-Benz Arena will open with a two month program of events commencing with concerts featuring Faye Wong, Jacky Cheung, and what is billed as the largest family show in the world: \"Walking With Dinosaurs.\"<\/p>\n<p>A grand opening ceremony will be be held on January 15, 2011 Mercedes-Benz Arena Grand Opening Ceremony with high profile events celebrating Mercedes-Benz's 115th global anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shanghai World Expo Culture Center has been reopened as the Mercedes-Benz Arena, the car giant's first sponsored entertainment arena outside Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[15449,12826,13479,15450,12764,15451],"class_list":["post-18322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-arena","tag-expo","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-o2-arena","tag-shanghai","tag-staples-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}