{"id":8790,"date":"2014-07-14T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T22:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8790"},"modified":"2014-07-14T18:07:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T22:07:21","slug":"world-cup-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8790","title":{"rendered":"World cup wrapup&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;haven&#8217;t really thought about politics today so that will have to wait until tomorrow or Wednesday&#8230;right now, with the world cup ending yesterday, it&#8217;s time to put down a few thoughts about this cup&#8230;the thought just came to me that this is the 5th one that I have really followed and I think it is certainly my favorite&#8230;it might be that I had more knowledge of the teams and players since I follow the BPL and many of them play in that league, so it was cool to see some of them play for their countries&#8230;it was a little weird to see Tim Howard, or vanPersie not in their BPL colors but it was still fun to watch. I picked Germany to win it all and they did&#8230;and I was just thinking that I could have made some money if I would have bet on it but they were only about 5-1 so the money wouldn&#8217;t have been that good&#8230;I do feel good that the US only lost to Germany 1-0 and the favorites, Brazil, got bombed 7-1 by them&#8230;..but now, it is back to the boring days that were before the cup&#8230;oh, well&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;haven&#8217;t really thought about politics today so that will have to wait until tomorrow or Wednesday&#8230;right now, with the world cup ending yesterday, it&#8217;s time to put down a few thoughts about this cup&#8230;the thought just came to me that this is the 5th one that I have really followed and I think it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8790\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World cup wrapup&#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":[104],"class_list":["post-8790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790","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=8790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8792,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions\/8792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}