{"id":2702,"date":"2012-06-22T13:27:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T18:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/22\/i-am-only-going-to-say-this-once-euro-2012-will-decide-the-fate-of-the-eu\/"},"modified":"2012-06-22T13:27:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T18:27:49","slug":"i-am-only-going-to-say-this-once-euro-2012-will-decide-the-fate-of-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/22\/i-am-only-going-to-say-this-once-euro-2012-will-decide-the-fate-of-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"I am only going to say this once: EURO 2012 will decide the fate of the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s press seems too timid to say it, so I am just going to make this plain and clear. Tonight&#8217;s Eurocup match-up between Germany and Greece WILL determine the outcome of the EU. Elections? Pah. Financial legislation? Please. High-level meetings of the G20? It&#8217;s a show. Anyone can do those. But a Eurocup match-up with all the insinuation and subtext of a freshman-level English class reading assignment? That happens once every four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s press seems too timid to say it, so I am just going to make this plain and clear. Tonight&#8217;s Eurocup match-up between Germany and Greece WILL determine the outcome of the EU. Elections? Pah. Financial legislation? Please. High-level meetings of the G20? It&#8217;s a show. Anyone can do those. But a Eurocup match-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-random","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}