{"id":588,"date":"2004-06-26T21:30:32","date_gmt":"2004-06-27T00:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=588"},"modified":"2004-06-26T21:30:32","modified_gmt":"2004-06-27T00:30:32","slug":"euro-2004-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2004 IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>T<\/span>he Dutch national soccer\/football team <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/euro_2004\/3831335.stm\">made it to the semi-finals<\/a>, playing against host Portugal next Wednesday. I didn&#8217;t have time to really sit down and watch the game, since I was in charge of cooking, but thought it was a pretty good game. Not boring, except for that it was just a long game. Robben was (once again) creating good chances. If the Dutch make it to the finals, it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if he gets an honourable mention.\n<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow the Czech Republic plays Denmark for the last empty slot in the semi-finals: I expect the Czechs to make it. Note that many Dutch people think that the Czechs will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nos.nl\/ek2004\/rubrieken\/deoranjebarometer\/optimistischnederlandzenuwachtig.html\">become the European champions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch national soccer\/football team made it to the semi-finals, playing against host Portugal next Wednesday. I didn&#8217;t have time to really sit down and watch the game, since I was in charge of cooking, but thought it was a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=588\">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\/588"}],"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=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}