{"id":226,"date":"2006-07-06T06:55:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T11:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=226"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:39:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:39:46","slug":"if-you-think-im-fickle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"If You Think I&#8217;m Fickle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think I&#8217;m fickle, changing World Cup allegiances faster than Jennifer Lopez changes husbands, then <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=davies\/060704\">check out Englishman Michael Davies&#8217; sudden infatuation with the Italian National Team.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Methinks he enjoys<em> Die Nationalmannshaft&#8217;s<\/em> demise just a little <em>too much<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>WARNING: If you have asthma, keep your inhaler close by while you read this. I should know.<\/p>\n<p>With inhaler in hand, you might want to check out several of his other posts as well. He is by far the funniest and most insightful WC blogger out there (hat tip to JRB for pointing this one out to me).<\/p>\n<p>Some other interesting WC blogs can be found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.iht.com\/tribtalk\/sports\/worldcupcohen\/\"><em>International Herald Tribune<\/em> (Roger Cohen)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/soccersweep\/\">Soccer Sweep at <em>USA Today<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcupblog.org\/\">WorldCupBlog.org <\/a>which contains blogs on all 32 teams.<\/p>\n<p>I know I have a few potential converts to &#8220;The Beautiful Game&#8221; out there. Perhaps just a little bit more quality soccer reading will help seal the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think I&#8217;m fickle, changing World Cup allegiances faster than Jennifer Lopez changes husbands, then check out Englishman Michael Davies&#8217; sudden infatuation with the Italian National Team. Methinks he enjoys Die Nationalmannshaft&#8217;s demise just a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,52,42,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-soccer","category-sports","category-world-cup-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9670,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/9670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}