{"id":8665,"date":"2014-06-17T17:29:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T21:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8665"},"modified":"2014-06-17T17:29:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T21:29:32","slug":"world-cup-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8665","title":{"rendered":"World Cup stuff&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I almost forgot to come back to do this one with all of the soccer that has been on today&#8230;but that is the topic I wanted to talk about so that would be just too ironic&#8230;so far, the matches have been pretty good, especially the US 2-1 win over Ghana last night&#8230;one of the most hard- fought games I have seen in quite a while but the US can play so much better&#8230;but maybe not the next match with Altidore being injured and no one that I can see to replace him&#8230;that is one of the reasons I thought that leaving Donovan off the squad was a bad idea&#8230;he would have made a good backup for just this instance and Altidore has been injury prone throughout his career&#8230;I guess it will be left up to the no name forwards to break out&#8230;I hope they do&#8230;or maybe Dempsey?\u00a0 The Mexico\/Brazil game just finished a few minutes ago with a 0-0 tie and I&#8217;m not surprised&#8230;Brazil didn&#8217;t look that good in their first match&#8230;Mexico looked okay in their first but still not what they can play&#8230;.I do need to get a life and stop doing nothing but watching soccer&#8230;.maybe tomorrow&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I almost forgot to come back to do this one with all of the soccer that has been on today&#8230;but that is the topic I wanted to talk about so that would be just too ironic&#8230;so far, the matches have been pretty good, especially the US 2-1 win over Ghana last night&#8230;one of the most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8665\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Cup stuff&#8230;<\/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":[116,104],"class_list":["post-8665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-usa","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665","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=8665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8666,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions\/8666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}