{"id":4097,"date":"2010-06-12T16:51:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T20:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2010-06-12T16:51:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T20:51:36","slug":"in-this-case-a-tie-is-kinda-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/12\/in-this-case-a-tie-is-kinda-okay\/","title":{"rendered":"In this case, a tie is (kinda) okay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In international competitions, it&#8217;s always hard to watch when your first and second favourite teams play head-to-head. Had Canada made it to the World Cup, I&#8217;d be cheering for Canada first, England second, and USA third. Canada didn&#8217;t qualify (again), so I had to watch my other two preferred teams fight it out. A draw at least leaves both teams alive for advancing out of the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>To see how the game unfolded according to the Twitterati, check this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/football\/world-cup-match-replay\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Guardian<\/em> page<\/a>, where it tracks the progress of the game against the hashtagged posts on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In international competitions, it&#8217;s always hard to watch when your first and second favourite teams play head-to-head. Had Canada made it to the World Cup, I&#8217;d be cheering for Canada first, England second, and USA third. Canada didn&#8217;t qualify (again), so I had to watch my other two preferred teams fight it out. A draw [&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":[4,20,13],"tags":[252,310,401],"class_list":["post-4097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-soccer","category-usa","tag-southafrica","tag-twitter","tag-worldcup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-145","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097","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=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4098,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions\/4098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}