{"id":2514,"date":"2005-12-09T19:52:13","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2005\/12\/09\/fifa-hates-the-us\/"},"modified":"2005-12-09T19:52:13","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T19:52:13","slug":"fifa-hates-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2514","title":{"rendered":"fifa-hates-the-us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The downside to not living at home with my mother:  I find out at the last minute that all the qualifying teams for the <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2005\/soccer\/12\/09\/cup.draw.ap\/index.html?cnn=yes%22\">2006 World Cup have been assigned to their groups<\/a>.  I realize it&#8217;s random.  Still.  It&#8217;s 1990 all over again, and I honestly don&#8217;t know how decent the US team is right now.<br \/>\nAh!  But the fever is building.<br \/>\nDid they have to place the Americans with the Italians and the Czechs?!?  It&#8217;s going to be a frickin&#8217; blood bath.  In the meantime Mexico only has Portugal to deal with, and Argentina doesn&#8217;t have it bad.  Germany is of course in the Cup because they&#8217;re hosting, but they always have a good team.  As long as Brazil doesn&#8217;t make it to the finals, I&#8217;ll be happy.<br \/>\nYes, I am a futb\ufffdl fan.  Watch me become rabid.  Rawr!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The downside to not living at home with my mother: I find out at the last minute that all the qualifying teams for the 2006 World Cup have been assigned to their groups. I realize it&#8217;s random. Still. It&#8217;s 1990 all over again, and I honestly don&#8217;t know how decent the US team is right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}