{"id":2951,"date":"2010-06-12T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2010-06-12T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T21:00:27","slug":"the-luck-of-the-draw-england-1-%e2%80%93-1-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/06\/12\/the-luck-of-the-draw-england-1-%e2%80%93-1-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Luck of the Draw (England 1 \u2013 1 USA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the defense let us down again in the early going, but all was made right with the world when Dempsey squeaked one into the net in the 40th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Sure it did not exactly happen that way, but one of my favorite sayings that I learned from my dad applies.  Sometimes I would rather be lucky than good.<\/p>\n<p>A draw is a great result for Team USA, and it was well earned, improving our chances to advance.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward I think it is imperative to pull out Ricardo Clark, and get Herculez Gomez into the mix at some point.  I am not even sure what we can do different on defense, but thank God Onyewu is fit.<\/p>\n<p>Go USA!<\/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>Well, the defense let us down again in the early going, but all was made right with the world when Dempsey squeaked one into the net in the 40th minute. Sure it did not exactly happen that way, but one of my favorite sayings that I learned from my dad applies. Sometimes I would rather &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/06\/12\/the-luck-of-the-draw-england-1-%e2%80%93-1-usa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Luck of the Draw (England 1 \u2013 1 USA)<\/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-2951","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\/2951","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=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2952,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions\/2952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}