{"id":1638,"date":"2026-06-04T21:09:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2026-06-04T21:09:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:09:03","slug":"thursday-june-4th-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, June 4th, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mexico put five past Serbia tonight, conceding only the one, and the margin was wide enough to call it a statement rather than a tune-up. It is the kind of result that quiets the doubt one carries into a tournament, or at least lets a man pretend it has. Whether five goals against friendly opposition means anything come the eleventh is a question the group stage will answer plainly enough. Still, I will take the optimism while it is on offer. As ready as we are going to be, and the waiting is nearly done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico put five past Serbia tonight, conceding only the one, and the margin was wide enough to call it a statement rather than a tune-up. It is the kind of result that quiets the doubt one carries into a tournament, or at least lets a man pretend it has. Whether five goals against friendly opposition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}