{"id":1719,"date":"2026-07-11T21:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2026-07-11T21:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:05:48","slug":"friday-july-10th-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1719","title":{"rendered":"Friday, July 10th, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spain are through to the World Cup semifinals, having put out Belgium two to one. The tournament is thinning to its serious contenders now, and it is a strange pleasure to watch it unfold with no stake of my own in this particular match. Closer to home, I finally had the car&#8217;s air conditioning seen to, and the new mechanic did honest work at a fair price. I will go back, which is not a small thing to be able to say about a mechanic. In the evening I watched Obsession, and it unsettled me more than I expected. A good scare, well earned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain are through to the World Cup semifinals, having put out Belgium two to one. The tournament is thinning to its serious contenders now, and it is a strange pleasure to watch it unfold with no stake of my own in this particular match. Closer to home, I finally had the car&#8217;s air conditioning seen [&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-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","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=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}