{"id":585,"date":"2004-06-24T20:01:14","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T23:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=585"},"modified":"2004-06-24T20:01:14","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T23:01:14","slug":"euro-2004-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2004 III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>Y<\/span>esterday, I watched the game between The Netherlands and Latvia, <em>after<\/em> learning the results of the Czech Rep. vs. Germany game. A couple of things that sprang in mind:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was a boring game.\n<li>What an ugly stadium. They should have nicknamed it to &#8216;The Rock&#8217;.\n<li>Davids was the only player to be impressive.\n<li>Why do people congratulate each other when they &#8216;manage to secure a penalty&#8217;? I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s appropriate at all.\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<p>Today, England lost in the penalty shoot-out. I wonder if the game was lost when Rooney went out. Not sure what to think of it (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/euro_2004\/england\/3837731.stm\">what others think<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>As for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euro2004.com\/tournament\/matches\/round=1582\/match=1059190\/index.html\">Swedes playing against the Dutch<\/a>,  lets see if Nistelrooy manages to get another in. It would make him the most likely topscorer of the tournament, even if the Dutch get booted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I watched the game between The Netherlands and Latvia, after learning the results of the Czech Rep. vs. Germany game. A couple of things that sprang in mind: It was a boring game. What an ugly stadium. They should &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=585\">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\/585"}],"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=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}