{"id":1672,"date":"2026-06-20T22:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2026-06-20T22:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:56:06","slug":"saturday-june-20th-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1672","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, June 20th, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A day of departures at the World Cup. The Netherlands put five past Sweden and conceded one in return, though the scoreline flattered no one in the end: Sweden survive to play another match. Germany got past the Ivory Coast by the odd goal, two to one, and Ecuador and Cura\u00e7ao played out a goalless draw that sent Cura\u00e7ao home. The heaviest exit was Tunisia&#8217;s, beaten four-nil by Japan and out, a collapse made no less complete by the sacking of Lamouchi midway through the tournament. There is something instructive in a team that changes its captain mid-voyage and arrives nowhere all the same. The trouble was rarely the man at the helm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day of departures at the World Cup. The Netherlands put five past Sweden and conceded one in return, though the scoreline flattered no one in the end: Sweden survive to play another match. Germany got past the Ivory Coast by the odd goal, two to one, and Ecuador and Cura\u00e7ao played out a goalless [&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-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","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=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}