{"id":15908,"date":"2012-07-08T10:59:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T15:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15908"},"modified":"2012-07-08T10:59:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T15:59:51","slug":"canada-beats-us-at-football-really-not-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/08\/canada-beats-us-at-football-really-not-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada beats US at football. Really. Not a joke."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, it was Under-19 football, but Canada <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nfl\/2012\/7\/8\/3144255\/canada-beats-united-states-american-football-u19-world-championship\" target=\"_blank\">did win<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; the U.S. team at the IFAF U-19 World Championship fell to Canada, 23-17, in the gold medal game. The American team was the defending champion in the event, and had won its first two games in the 2012 event by a combined 97-13 score.<\/p>\n<p>An American team losing in a sport that theoretically only America is any good at? And to Canada? Never mind that gridiron football \u2014 the umbrella term for football played in the U.S. and Canada that encompasses both American football and the Canadian football that actually existed a few years before it \u2014 is about as much Canadian as American; do you expect most American fans to know that?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A bit of triumphalism is surely allowed, right?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveLozo\/status\/221816030463393793<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, it was Under-19 football, but Canada did win: &#8230; the U.S. team at the IFAF U-19 World Championship fell to Canada, 23-17, in the gold medal game. The American team was the defending champion in the event, and had won its first two games in the 2012 event by a combined 97-13 score. An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,26,13],"tags":[504],"class_list":["post-15908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-football","category-usa","tag-teenagers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-48A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15910,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15908\/revisions\/15910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}