{"id":1691,"date":"2026-06-29T10:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:08:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:08:02","slug":"sunday-june-29th-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1691","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, June 28th, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tournament has reached its middle stages, and today brought the round of 32: Canada against South Africa. In honesty it was a poor match, slow and shapeless, the sort that tests a supporter&#8217;s patience more than his nerves. It seemed bound for extra time and the lottery of penalties. Then, deep in added time, Eustaquio found the one goal the whole afternoon had withheld, and Canada became the first side through to the round of 16. There is a lesson in that, I suppose: a dull ninety minutes is forgiven entirely by the right final second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tournament has reached its middle stages, and today brought the round of 32: Canada against South Africa. In honesty it was a poor match, slow and shapeless, the sort that tests a supporter&#8217;s patience more than his nerves. It seemed bound for extra time and the lottery of penalties. Then, deep in added time, [&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-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","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=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1694,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}