{"id":2880,"date":"2010-06-06T08:01:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T13:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2010-06-06T08:01:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T13:01:38","slug":"u-s-world-cup-bid-2018-or-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/06\/06\/u-s-world-cup-bid-2018-or-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. World Cup Bid &#8211; 2018 or 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure if online petitions really matter or hold any sort of influence over decision makers.  With that said I signed this one a while back to bring the World Cup to the United States in 2018 or 2022.  The tally is now over 450K signatures.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019re at a huge moment for the Bid. The official Bid Book is in FIFA\u2019s hands, and the 2010 World Cup is about to kick off. The next month is our best chance to show FIFA that American soccer fans are as loud, passionate, and intense as soccer fans anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we\u2019ve hit 400,000 supporters, our new goal is to reach half a million before the World Cup is over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you are at all interested in the U.S. hosting a World Cup, you should click <a href=\"http:\/\/gousabid.com\/BidPetition\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/gousabid.com\/BidPetition', 'here');\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to sign the \u201cGo USA Bid\u201d petition.<\/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>I am not sure if online petitions really matter or hold any sort of influence over decision makers. With that said I signed this one a while back to bring the World Cup to the United States in 2018 or 2022. The tally is now over 450K signatures. We\u2019re at a huge moment for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/06\/06\/u-s-world-cup-bid-2018-or-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. World Cup Bid &#8211; 2018 or 2022<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","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=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}