{"id":2805,"date":"2010-06-05T10:26:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T15:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2010-06-05T10:26:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T15:26:28","slug":"u-s-%e2%80%93-australia-final-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/06\/05\/u-s-%e2%80%93-australia-final-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. \u2013 Australia Final Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was an overall good showing for Team U.S.A. with a 3-1 victory over Australia.  I agree with most of the points in this <a href=\" http:\/\/worldcup.si.com\/2010\/06\/05\/usa-3-australia-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">SI article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am scared about our defense; too sporadic for my taste.  If Australia could have finished some of their chances, it could have been a different game.  I am excited about our possibilities up front.  Buddle was fantastic and G\u00f3mez has been fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>Cannot wait until next Saturday when we take on England!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was an overall good showing for Team U.S.A. with a 3-1 victory over Australia. I agree with most of the points in this SI article. I am scared about our defense; too sporadic for my taste. If Australia could have finished some of their chances, it could have been a different game. I am &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/06\/05\/u-s-%e2%80%93-australia-final-thoughts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. \u2013 Australia Final Thoughts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-u-s-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2806,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}