{"id":1209,"date":"2010-06-11T00:30:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T23:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2010-06-11T00:31:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T23:31:32","slug":"world-cup-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/11\/world-cup-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While soccer is rarely televised in the U.S., the rest of the world seems to love their football. ((I&#8217;m amused that <a href=\"http:\/\/canadiansoccerblog.ca\/\">some Canadians<\/a> apparently switch between &#8216;soccer&#8217; and &#8216;football&#8217; to describe the game.)) A few years ago I saw part of one World Cup game at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theharp.net\/\">neighborhood Irish bar<\/a>; this year, I&#8217;ll have my pick of pubs, along with eager colleagues closely following the games. <\/p>\n<p>With so many games to keep track of, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marca.com\/deporte\/futbol\/mundial\/sudafrica-2010\/calendario-english.html\">World Cup chart<\/a> from Spanish sports daily Marca is a one-stop shop for schedule info. (Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2010\/06\/10\/interactive-world-cup-schedule\/\">Nathan<\/a>)! <a href=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/marca-worldcup.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/marca-worldcup.png\" alt=\"World Cup info from Marca\" title=\"marca-worldcup\" width=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/marca-worldcup.png 1440w, https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/marca-worldcup-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/marca-worldcup-1024x640.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter has made some auto-searches for the occasion, guaranteed to attract spam, along with some actual news and opinions. There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/worldcup\/worldcup\">overall page<\/a> along with a page for each game (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/worldcup\/match\/rsa\/mex\">South Africa vs. Mexico<\/a>. Pages for each country (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/worldcup\/mex\">Mexico<\/a>) give dates and times of upcoming matches. (Thanks Ranti and Richard for the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ranti\/status\/15878958738\">tip<\/a>.) <a href=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/twitter-worldcup.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/twitter-worldcup.png\" alt=\"world cup on twitter\" title=\"twitter-worldcup\" width=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/twitter-worldcup.png 980w, https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/twitter-worldcup-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While soccer is rarely televised in the U.S., the rest of the world seems to love their football. ((I&#8217;m amused that some Canadians apparently switch between &#8216;soccer&#8217; and &#8216;football&#8217; to describe the game.)) A few years ago I saw part of one World Cup game at the neighborhood Irish bar; this year, I&#8217;ll have my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[170,256,255,257],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts","tag-ireland","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}