{"id":1239,"date":"2006-06-09T20:04:24","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T20:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2006-06-09T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T20:04:24","slug":"gooooooaaaaaall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"Gooooooaaaaaallllll!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV>The <A href=\"http:\/\/fifaworldcup.yahoo.com\/06\/en\/\">World Cup<\/A>, the biggest sporting event on the planet, began today.&nbsp; While productivity in most of the world&#8217;s nations will take a hit as close to a billion people tune in to the matches on television, radio, or the Web, we Americans remain proudly oblivious to the event.&nbsp; This shouldn&#8217;t really surprise anyone.&nbsp; After all, we couldn&#8217;t be bothered with the <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metric_system\">metric system<\/A> either.&nbsp; I do hope the American team does well, but I&#8217;ll be pulling for my birthplace, Germany.&nbsp; Deutschland &#252;ber alles!<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Cup, the biggest sporting event on the planet, began today.&nbsp; While productivity in most of the world&#8217;s nations will take a hit as close to a billion people tune in to the matches on television, radio, or the Web, we Americans remain proudly oblivious to the event.&nbsp; This shouldn&#8217;t really surprise anyone.&nbsp; After <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1239' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-jZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}