{"id":583,"date":"2004-06-20T11:10:17","date_gmt":"2004-06-20T14:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=583"},"modified":"2004-06-20T11:10:17","modified_gmt":"2004-06-20T14:10:17","slug":"euro-2004-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2004 II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span> was able to watch the Holland vs. Czech Republic soccer\/football game thanks to Alfons who, after I found out that TSN didn&#8217;t cover the game live, streamed the Dutch broadcast right back to me.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch team unfortunately lost and I&#8217;m still scratching my head on two fatal events that game: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The substitution of Robben. No matter how you turn it around, it was the worst decision Advocaat (the trainer) could make. He replaced a left wing attacker for a right defensive midfielder. Imagine the position changes.\n<li>The second red card for Heitinga was undeserved. Playing with 10 players marked the third Czech goal.\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<p>Generally I wasn&#8217;t impressed with the Czech&#8217;s position or tactical play, but  in this game,  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/euro_2004\/czech_rep\/3788123.stm\">the winners are always right<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was able to watch the Holland vs. Czech Republic soccer\/football game thanks to Alfons who, after I found out that TSN didn&#8217;t cover the game live, streamed the Dutch broadcast right back to me. The Dutch team unfortunately lost &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=583\">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":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"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=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}