{"id":1735,"date":"2026-07-18T21:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T04:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2026-07-18T21:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T04:30:35","slug":"saturday-july-18th-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1735","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, July 18th, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liza left for Los Angeles today, her grandmother&#8217;s ninetieth birthday. I stayed behind for a matter I judged more pressing, the World Cup third place match, though I concede the ranking of priorities may not survive scrutiny. England beat France six to four, a result the wider world has already declared the game of the tournament. I could not quite share the fervor. A third place match is still a third place match, and my investment never climbed very high, though I confess some private satisfaction at watching France go into the half down four to nothing. It leaves me one small consolation to carry forward: Mexico, at least, lost to the team that finished third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liza left for Los Angeles today, her grandmother&#8217;s ninetieth birthday. I stayed behind for a matter I judged more pressing, the World Cup third place match, though I concede the ranking of priorities may not survive scrutiny. England beat France six to four, a result the wider world has already declared the game of the [&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-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","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=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}