{"id":3169,"date":"2010-06-12T13:47:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T21:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2010-06-12T14:01:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T22:01:11","slug":"world-cup-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=3169","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football (soccer) is a great metaphor for life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_1202.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3170\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=3170\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_1202.jpg?fit=2585%2C2081&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2585,2081\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot S90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1276335236&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0166666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"My 2006 England Shirt\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_1202.jpg?fit=700%2C563&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3170  aligncenter\" title=\"My 2006 England Shirt\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_1202-300x241.jpg?resize=300%2C241\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_1202.jpg?resize=300%2C241&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_1202.jpg?resize=1024%2C824&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_1202.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_1202.jpg?w=2100&amp;ssl=1 2100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Showing off my England Shirt but cheering for the US<\/em>A<\/p>\n<p>We just watched the USA play England to a draw in the first round of  the World Cup.\u00a0 I forget how enjoyable it is to watch a good game.\u00a0\u00a0 Of  all sports football (soccer) is the best metaphor for life. think about  it.\u00a0 Just like in life, in football (soccer):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>There are very few breaks in the action.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>You have to play offense and defense.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Most of what you try doesn\u2019t work.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A lot of what goes on is important but boring.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bad things happen but play goes on.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To win in football (soccer):<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022    Teamwork is necessary, but so are heroic individual acts.<br \/>\n\u2022    Luck counts.<br \/>\n\u2022    Lots of the time you know the score, but not how much time there is  to play.<br \/>\n\u2022    Conditioning is incredibly important.<br \/>\n\u2022    It has some silly rules like \u201coff sides\u201d and \u201chands.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just like in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football (soccer) is a great metaphor for life. Showing off my England Shirt but cheering for the USA We just watched the USA play England to a draw in the first round of the World Cup.\u00a0 I forget how enjoyable it is to watch a good game.\u00a0\u00a0 Of all sports football (soccer) is the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-P7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}