{"id":1675,"date":"2026-06-23T21:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2026-06-23T21:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:03:06","slug":"sunday-june-21st-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1675","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, June 21st, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A full slate of football today, and I gave it most of my attention. Spain dispatched Saudi Arabia without mercy, four to nil, the kind of result that says more about the gap between sides than about either of them. Uruguay and Cape Verde traded blows to a two-all draw, the better story by far, a smaller nation refusing to bow. Belgium and Iran ground out a goalless stalemate that tested the patience. Egypt came from behind to put three past New Zealand. Four matches in a day is a kind of indulgence I don&#8217;t often allow myself, but the tournament earns it. The draws, as ever, were the ones worth watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A full slate of football today, and I gave it most of my attention. Spain dispatched Saudi Arabia without mercy, four to nil, the kind of result that says more about the gap between sides than about either of them. Uruguay and Cape Verde traded blows to a two-all draw, the better story by far, [&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-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","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=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}