{"id":416610,"date":"2026-07-29T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416610\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T15:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:00:28","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-l-a-s-spirit-of-fun-and-wonder-isnt-limited-to-major-sporting-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416610\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: L.A.\u2019s spirit of fun and wonder isn\u2019t limited to major sporting events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: Thanks to Los Angeles Times writer Christopher Buchanan and the Angelenos who shared their feelings regarding the World Cup soccer games seen at SoFi Stadium and at group viewing parties (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/lifestyle\/story\/2026-07-22\/la-fans-share-their-best-world-cup-memories\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201c\u2018For a few days the world stopped\u2019: L.A. fans share their favorite World Cup memories,\u201d<\/a> July 22). Buchanan\u2019s words describing the \u201ccultural acceptance, intense pride and charming grit\u201d of the residents and the city itself during the games were excellent.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I attended many events of the \u201984 Summer Olympic Games and enjoyed the same spirit, fun and wonder.<\/p>\n<p>But isn\u2019t Los Angeles like that pretty much all the time? Rocker <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/david-bowie-ground-control-to-davy-jones-77059\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">David Bowie<\/a> said it best years ago: \u201cL.A. is my favorite museum.\u201d Mine too.<\/p>\n<p>James Regan, Carlsbad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Thanks to Los Angeles Times writer Christopher Buchanan and the Angelenos who shared their feelings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[166665,166664,2072,25210,7244,166663,166661,2303,48,52,51,1838,47,50,49,63,166662,29012,3898,166660,27721],"class_list":["post-416610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-charming-grit","tag-cultural-acceptance","tag-editor","tag-fun","tag-group","tag-intense-pride","tag-l-a-fan","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-major-sporting-event","tag-spirit","tag-thank","tag-wonder","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}