{"id":1701,"date":"2026-07-02T22:16:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2026-07-02T22:16:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:16:51","slug":"thursday-july-2nd-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1701","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, July 2nd, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second to last day of the Round of 32, and for the most part the tournament ran to form. Spain saw off Austria three to nil and Switzerland did the same to Algeria by two, both efficient, both forgettable; the better side won and little else needed saying. The day belonged instead to Croatia, who lost two to one to Portugal and were plainly robbed of more. Three goals waved off for offside, the last in added time that would have carried them to extra, and to my eye that final call was wrong. When the fans began throwing things onto the pitch, I found I could not fault them. A team can accept losing. It is harder to accept being decided against.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second to last day of the Round of 32, and for the most part the tournament ran to form. Spain saw off Austria three to nil and Switzerland did the same to Algeria by two, both efficient, both forgettable; the better side won and little else needed saying. The day belonged instead to Croatia, [&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-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","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=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}