{"id":27260,"date":"2014-06-23T20:48:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-day-america-fell-in-love-with-the-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2014-06-23T20:48:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:48:06","slug":"the-day-america-fell-in-love-with-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-day-america-fell-in-love-with-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day America Fell in Love with the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorker.tumblr.com\/post\/89678135747\/the-day-america-fell-in-love-with-the-world-cup\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">newyorker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/c976561b8ad723767943627503323711\/tumblr_inline_n7mw3rQXP41qap3w2.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Cassidy<\/strong> on why America has finally embraced the World Cup: <a href=\"http:\/\/nyr.kr\/1pb2NFT\">http:\/\/nyr.kr\/1pb2NFT<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNot so long ago, Americans regarded soccer as a game to play rather than as a spectator sport. Now there are entire cable channels devoted to the English Premier League and other club competitions. But there\u2019s more to this than technological determinism and other long words. This World Cup is turning out to be a wonderful one, full of thrilling games.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Photograph by Leo Correa\/AP.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>newyorker: John Cassidy on why America has finally embraced the World Cup: http:\/\/nyr.kr\/1pb2NFT \u201cNot so long ago, Americans regarded soccer as a game to play rather than as a spectator sport. Now there are entire cable channels devoted to the English Premier League and other club competitions. But there\u2019s more to this than technological determinism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-75G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}