{"id":21416,"date":"2020-11-30T10:30:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T15:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=21416"},"modified":"2020-11-30T10:30:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T15:30:26","slug":"is-manchester-united-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=21416","title":{"rendered":"Is Manchester United for real?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I was going to combine all three of these sports posts into one but the first one went a little long so I decided to break them up into their component parts as I sit here and try to stay busy&#8230;I am a little confused about Man U after their start this year in the Premier League&#8230;.they were mired down the table at about 15th and it appeared they could be headed to relegation which would be one of the biggest shocks in English football&#8230;or soccer&#8230;but, something happened over the past few weeks and they have climbed up to 7th, only 5 points from the top and with a good shot of making the top four to get back to the champions league in Europe in the spring. But, damn, they are becoming cardiac kids that is a little stressful to watch&#8230;like their game yesterday, they went behind 2-0 early and the score stayed that way until well into the 2nd half when I just turned it off with frustration with how they were playing&#8230;but then, like someone turned on a switch, they came back to win in the final minutes of the game 3-2 and I missed it until I saw it on the game highlights later in the day&#8230;.I was shocked to say the least and maybe I&#8217;ll have to stay with them in their next match just to see if it&#8217;s a fluke or not&#8230;.it would be nice to have one team that I follow do well since all of the rest of them really, really suck this year&#8230;.fingers crossed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I was going to combine all three of these sports posts into one but the first one went a little long so I decided to break them up into their component parts as I sit here and try to stay busy&#8230;I am a little confused about Man U after their start this year in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=21416\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Manchester United for real?<\/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":[47],"class_list":["post-21416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-manchester-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21417,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21416\/revisions\/21417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}