{"id":70,"date":"2017-10-11T14:10:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T21:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2017-10-11T14:10:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T21:10:55","slug":"usa-world-cup-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/blog\/usa-world-cup-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"USA World Cup Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USA World Cup team lost a match yesterday, and that put them out of the World Cup for 2018. This is a soccer tournament, and lots of the world will be watching the World Cup next year.<\/p>\n<p>I like such events because they bring people of the world together, like some of the people I watched the match with. I am not intent on watching sports, but I like when people connect in some way that fits them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The cool thing about the World Cup is that each country gets to support their people in competing with other countries on a soccer field. Events have effects on the people that are not even participating in the event. There is an energy around these things.<\/p>\n<p>I used to play soccer on a team when I was in 6th grade, and the team name was the &#8220;Arctic Blast&#8221;, which was based on a slushie drink we had at our middle school. I like the sport because it involves a lot of running, but it requires a lot of teammates all coming together at the same time, so it is not as casual as basketball.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup next year will be held in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USA World Cup team lost a match yesterday, and that put them out of the World Cup for 2018. This is a soccer tournament, and lots of the world will be watching the World Cup next year. I like such events because they bring people of the world together, like some of the people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/blog\/usa-world-cup-soccer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;USA World Cup Soccer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}