{"id":1725,"date":"2026-07-13T21:15:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:15:43","slug":"monday-july-13th-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1725","title":{"rendered":"Monday, July 13th, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fifteen miles on the bike, an easy day for it, the World Cup quiet before the semifinals open tomorrow with France against Spain. In the evening I finished Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. The last chapter buried its ending under one cutscene after another, and for all the years and craft poured into the remake, I keep coming back to the same quiet verdict: the original hit harder. There is something to that, a game made with far less landing with far more. Tomorrow we watch, and I expect to have plenty to say about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen miles on the bike, an easy day for it, the World Cup quiet before the semifinals open tomorrow with France against Spain. In the evening I finished Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. The last chapter buried its ending under one cutscene after another, and for all the years and craft poured into the remake, I [&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-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","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=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}