{"id":1721,"date":"2026-07-11T21:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2026-07-11T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:10:08","slug":"saturday-july-11th-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1721","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, July 11th, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The semifinals are set, and both were settled the hard way. England needed extra time against Norway before Bellingham found his second and closed it out, 2-1. The other went further and stranger. Argentina and Switzerland turned on a single moment in the 72nd, when Embolo dove into a challenge, drew a second yellow through VAR, and left his side a man down for the rest. Until then Switzerland had been the better team, which is what made the unraveling hard to watch; a match slipping away not on merit but on one reckless instant. Argentina pushed, the game stretched into the last of extra time, and Lautaro Martinez settled it in 120+1. There is a lesson in it somewhere about how little it takes to undo an hour of good work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The semifinals are set, and both were settled the hard way. England needed extra time against Norway before Bellingham found his second and closed it out, 2-1. The other went further and stranger. Argentina and Switzerland turned on a single moment in the 72nd, when Embolo dove into a challenge, drew a second yellow through [&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-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","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=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}