{"id":543,"date":"2006-06-22T09:25:30","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T16:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2006-06-22T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T16:25:30","slug":"bye-bye-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/bye-bye-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye-bye USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ghana Tomorrow\" alt=\"Ghana Tomorrow\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/blog\/images\/0606\/ghana.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s it. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/world_cup_2006\/4853408.stm\">USA is out<\/a> of the World Cup. Can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m surprised. Ghana came out of nowhere and are pulling the same trick we did <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport3\/worldcup2002\/hi\/team_pages\/usa\/newsid_2069000\/2069855.stm\">four years ago<\/a>. And they&#8217;ve remembered something we&#8217;ve forgotten, namely, that the object of the game is to put that round thing into the net on the other side of the field.<\/p>\n<p>But this is the World Cup. And I&#8217;m American. That means it&#8217;s time to root for someone new.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ghana\">Ghana<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So that&#8217;s it. USA is out of the World Cup. Can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m surprised. Ghana came out of nowhere and are pulling the same trick we did four years ago. And they&#8217;ve remembered something we&#8217;ve forgotten, namely, that the object of the game is to put that round thing into the net on the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}