{"id":1263,"date":"2006-07-03T18:56:54","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T18:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2006-07-03T18:56:54","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T18:56:54","slug":"football_hoolig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Football Hooligans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV>How desperate are people for World Cup tickets?&nbsp; So desperate that three poor, misguided souls <A href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?set_id=1&#038;click_id=29&#038;art_id=iol1151392753778F520\">posed as people with disabilities<\/A> in order to purchase tickets in the reserved disability section.&nbsp; Other fans became suspicious when the three Argentines leapt out of their newly purchased wheelchairs to cheer their team, prompting security to escort them out of the stadium.&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>I hope these geniuses felt enough remorse to at least consider donating the wheelchairs to a worthy charity.&nbsp; Unfortunately, there probably isn&#8217;t much sporting officials can do to prevent such abuse.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t imagine the guy behind the ticket window saying, &#8220;Sir, I need to see your complete medical records for the last five years before I can sell you this ticket.&#8221;&nbsp; The only solution is to mercilessly shame these poseurs in the press after they&#8217;re caught.&nbsp; <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How desperate are people for World Cup tickets?&nbsp; So desperate that three poor, misguided souls posed as people with disabilities in order to purchase tickets in the reserved disability section.&nbsp; Other fans became suspicious when the three Argentines leapt out of their newly purchased wheelchairs to cheer their team, prompting security to escort them out <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1263' 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-1263","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-kn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","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=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}