{"id":276,"date":"2006-08-23T05:57:42","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T10:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=276"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:39:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:39:28","slug":"a-world-cup-reprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"A World Cup Reprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"zinedine-zidane-real-madrid2.jpg\" id=\"image277\" title=\"zinedine-zidane-real-madrid2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/zinedine-zidane-real-madrid2.jpg\" \/>It&#8217;s been over a month now, but I just can&#8217;t let it go.<\/p>\n<p>Forget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=238\">the head butt<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LhcM4WP2cTc&#038;search=mondial%202006%20coup%20boule%20Zidane%20headbutt%20head%20butt%20world%20cup%20red\">These are the images which will endure.<\/a>  (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/quilts-soccer-chess-etc.blogspot.com\/\">Seattle Soccer Mom<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>If a mix of Coldplay and Zidane aren&#8217;t to your taste, then try a helping of U2&#8217;s Bono and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zRyhUMtoIhM\">a mesmerizing montage of World Cup 2006 highlights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, I know some of you hate it when I write about soccer. Just do me a favor: watch the videos and then take the same pulsating passion, the vim and verve, the emmaculate elan, the deftness of foot, and the all-encompassing, all-seeing vision and apply them to whatever work God sets before you this day. Just leave off the Wayne Rooney crotch-stomp.<\/p>\n<p>And may you be blessed. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joga_Bonito\">Joga Bonito (play beautiful).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--58a3ee3f8f61b7f3ca9da78648fbea5e-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--58a3ee3f8f61b7f3ca9da78648fbea5e-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--58a3ee3f8f61b7f3ca9da78648fbea5e-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--58a3ee3f8f61b7f3ca9da78648fbea5e-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--58a3ee3f8f61b7f3ca9da78648fbea5e--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been over a month now, but I just can&#8217;t let it go. Forget the head butt. These are the images which will endure. (Hat tip: Seattle Soccer Mom) If a mix of Coldplay and Zidane&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,52,42,57,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-soccer","category-sports","category-world-cup-2006","category-zinedine-zidane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","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=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9941,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/9941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}