{"id":595,"date":"2010-07-02T17:38:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T21:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2010-07-02T17:38:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T21:38:27","slug":"world-cup-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;an interesting day at the World Cup today with probably the best matches I&#8217;ve seen so far&#8230;the Netherlands defeated Brazil&#8230;yep, you read that right&#8230;Brazil is gone in a 2-1 loss. While most people were picking Brazil to win it all, in the matches I watched, they were inconsistent and I never really saw the flair that they are known for&#8230;they looked like a beatable team and in the end they were.<\/p>\n<p>The second match of the day, Uruguay and Ghana, was really entertaining with a wide open back and forth that went through overtime and into PK&#8217;s when one of the Ghanian players missed a PK on the last play of the match in overtime and then Uruguay won it in the shootout. Ghana played really well and I could see how they could beat us last week&#8230;.I feel sorry for the player who missed the PK that would have won it for them but that is the game and how it works sometimes&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to what I think will be the best match of the cup, when Germany and Argentina go at it Sat morning at 9:30&#8230;.can&#8217;t wait to see that one!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;an interesting day at the World Cup today with probably the best matches I&#8217;ve seen so far&#8230;the Netherlands defeated Brazil&#8230;yep, you read that right&#8230;Brazil is gone in a 2-1 loss. While most people were picking Brazil to win it all, in the matches I watched, they were inconsistent and I never really saw the flair &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=595\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Cup Update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}