{"id":14112,"date":"2014-06-28T17:41:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T00:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14112"},"modified":"2014-06-28T17:41:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T00:41:50","slug":"ubiquitious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/06\/28\/ubiquitious\/","title":{"rendered":"ubiquitious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching the World Cup match-up between Germany and the US.\u00c2\u00a0 Very surreal experience &#8230; unless the other match-up in the grouping comes out to a blow-out with this game coming out to a blow-out as well, both teams are advancing, so everything&#8217;s just anti-climactic as it moves to a 1-0 Germany win.\u00c2\u00a0 EVERYONE WINS!\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone in the stands over there in Brazil, Germans, Americans &#8230; are cheering.<\/p>\n<p>This was a revenge game, of course&#8230; Germany still smarting over what the US did to them during World War 2.<\/p>\n<p>And then we get the celebration shots from across the country.\u00c2\u00a0 Big flags, Stars and stripes&#8230; and&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 superhero costumes&#8230; Captain America and Wonder Woman&#8230; maybe that In These Times article complaining about superhero movies as akin to Ancient Greeks worshiping their gods was right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Don&#8217;t Tread on Me&#8221; snake flag&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Wait.\u00c2\u00a0 What?\u00c2\u00a0 When you dump it into a soccer game&#8230; Does that even mean anything anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching the World Cup match-up between Germany and the US.\u00c2\u00a0 Very surreal experience &#8230; unless the other match-up in the grouping comes out to a blow-out with this game coming out to a blow-out as well, both teams are advancing, so everything&#8217;s just anti-climactic as it moves to a 1-0 Germany win.\u00c2\u00a0 EVERYONE WINS!\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14112"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14116,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112\/revisions\/14116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}