{"id":9142,"date":"2014-06-19T07:17:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T14:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=9142"},"modified":"2014-06-19T07:17:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T14:17:43","slug":"soccer-is-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=9142","title":{"rendered":"Soccer is Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/simon-says\/world-cup-commentary\">this post a few years ago<\/a> and have revised it for the 2014 World Cup<\/p>\n<p>Football (soccer) is a great metaphor for life.<\/p>\n<p><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\" title=\"My 2006 England Shirt\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_1202-300x241.jpg?resize=300%2C241\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Showing off my England Shirt but cheering for the US<\/em>A<\/p>\n<p>We have been watching a lot of games in the group stage 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.\u00a0 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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this post a few years ago and have revised it for the 2014 World Cup Football (soccer) is a great metaphor for life. Showing off my England Shirt but cheering for the USA We have been watching a lot of games in the group stage of the World Cup.\u00a0 I forget how enjoyable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-9142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-2ns","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142","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=9142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9143,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142\/revisions\/9143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}