{"id":53,"date":"2006-06-26T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/2006\/06\/portugal-holland.html"},"modified":"2006-06-26T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T18:30:00","slug":"portugal-holland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/2006\/06\/portugal-holland.html","title":{"rendered":"Portugal &#8211; Holland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA Pres says the Russian ref (and when did Russians care that much for playing by the rules of the game?!) should have been given a yellow card himself. I say it shoulda been a pink slip&#8230;.  What a chaotic game that was. For a while there it seemed the whole metaphorical distance between sports and war might collapse and implode&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As for Portugal-Netherlands: Wow, what a mess. Even Sepp Blatter, <br \/>the president of FIFA, was compelled to criticize Russia&#8217;s Valentin <br \/>Ivanov &#8212; who handed out 16 yellow cards and four red cards &#8212; saying, <br \/>&#8216;There could have been a yellow card on the referee.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA Pres says the Russian ref (and when did Russians care that much for playing by the rules of the game?!) should have been given a yellow card himself. I say it shoulda been a pink slip&#8230;. What a chaotic game that was. For a while there it seemed the whole metaphorical distance between sports and war might collapse and implode&#8230;. &#8220;As for Portugal-Netherlands: Wow, what a mess. Even Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, was compelled to criticize Russia&#8217;s Valentin Ivanov &#8212; who handed out 16 yellow cards and four red cards &#8212; saying, &#8216;There could have been a yellow card on the referee.&#8217;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}