{"id":1695,"date":"2026-06-30T16:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:12:28","slug":"monday-june-29th-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"Monday, June 29th, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The knockout rounds have arrived, and with them the thin margins that decide everything. Brazil edged Japan two to one, though the Samurai held the lead at the half hour and looked, for a while, as though they might keep it; in the end they could not. Germany and Paraguay could not be separated in ninety minutes or in extra time, and it fell to penalties, where Paraguay held firm and took it four to three. The Netherlands met the same fate against Morocco, level through the whistle and beaten from the spot, three to two. Three matches, three slender results, two settled by nerve alone. There is no comfort in a one-goal lead now. The tournament has stopped forgiving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The knockout rounds have arrived, and with them the thin margins that decide everything. Brazil edged Japan two to one, though the Samurai held the lead at the half hour and looked, for a while, as though they might keep it; in the end they could not. Germany and Paraguay could not be separated in [&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-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","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=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}