{"id":611,"date":"2004-09-06T19:55:05","date_gmt":"2004-09-06T22:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=611"},"modified":"2004-09-06T19:55:05","modified_gmt":"2004-09-06T22:55:05","slug":"euro-2004-epilogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2004 (epilogue)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span>f you&#8217;re a soccer fan you may just as well sprint to your local Staples depot and buy a copy of Euro 2004. They go for sale for as low as 10 dollars. Buy yourself a genuine &#8216;dual action controller&#8217; (what&#8217;s in a word) too.\n<\/p>\n<p>That said, somebody could have told me that Euro 2004 didn&#8217;t come with the original Dutch team. No sir: the faces in the team slightly look like the ones in real life however without the names. Apparently, EA couldn&#8217;t seal a deal with the Dutch Soccer Association. A scandal, I would say: I mean, deciding to take out NED 13 while you actually meant to take out NUMBER 13 can make quite a difference in your final game against, say France. Trust me. <em>Kicken!!<\/em>, as they would say in Dutch-land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a soccer fan you may just as well sprint to your local Staples depot and buy a copy of Euro 2004. They go for sale for as low as 10 dollars. Buy yourself a genuine &#8216;dual action controller&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=611\">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\/611"}],"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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}