{"id":2302,"date":"2010-07-04T07:23:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T11:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2010-07-04T07:23:42","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T11:23:42","slug":"the-footballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2302","title":{"rendered":"The Footballs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> watched the Dutch play the other day<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/melo_miss_er.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/melo_miss_er-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Own goal, Brazil vs. Netherlands\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2304\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/melo_miss_er-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/melo_miss_er-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/melo_miss_er.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>, against Brazil and saw them win that game in their particular style they&#8217;re now known for: messy football with a teeny bit of flair and luck. After the equalizer, that unfortunate mix-up from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2304\">Cesar and Melo<\/a>, I was surprised to see the Brazilian team completely collapse, physically and emotionally. There was a remark by one of the guests at the CBC who said it the best (quoted as best as I can):\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">&#8220;There was this total lack of emotional balance in the Brazil team: From Dunga literally kicking and beating up the dug-out to his players losing it on the field&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>God. Sometimes I just hate this game for all the theatrics of the players and coaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the Dutch play the other day, against Brazil and saw them win that game in their particular style they&#8217;re now known for: messy football with a teeny bit of flair and luck. After the equalizer, that unfortunate mix-up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2302\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[427,431,311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}