{"id":578,"date":"2006-06-17T21:52:58","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T21:52:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-06-17T21:52:58","modified_gmt":"2006-06-17T21:52:58","slug":"soccer-goes-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/06\/17\/soccer-goes-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer Goes Mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People at work get tired of me fussing, cussing, and complaining about the lack of passion for soccer (yes I know it is football everywhere else) in the US.  I long for the day when there is some pride in what the National team does on the international stage.  I want people to be hacked off about the officiating in today\u2019s game.  The stuff of water coolers.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we took some small step today.  When I was in the check out line at the local adult beverage store, a couple of buddies in the other checkout line waved over another buddy entering the store.  After some brief chitchat, they started talking about the US\/Italy game.  It was obvious that they were not soccer fans or even that knowledgeable, but wonders of wonders, they were talking about the game.<\/p>\n<p>I could go on with this story.  Tasty, cold, adult liquids.  Explanations of the US not being out of the WC.  But the day has been long, and I have posted enough for one heck of a sports day (LeMans, WC action, CWS).<\/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>People at work get tired of me fussing, cussing, and complaining about the lack of passion for soccer (yes I know it is football everywhere else) in the US. I long for the day when there is some pride in what the National team does on the international stage. I want people to be hacked &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/06\/17\/soccer-goes-mainstream\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soccer Goes Mainstream<\/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-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","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=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}