{"id":121,"date":"2006-07-09T19:17:29","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T01:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2006-10-24T09:12:46","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T15:12:46","slug":"italia-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Italia Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/j1i_l0OeeMc\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/j1i_l0OeeMc\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nItaly finally wins the world cup.  I have been a fan of Italy ever since the 1994 World Cup.  Too bad back then they weren&#8217;t able to pull through and Baggio missed his penalty kick.  This time around things were different.  Buffon played excellent in net, and the defense in front of him was great.  The video above is Zinedine Zidane headbutting Materazzi in the extra time.  This resulted in a red card and France really missing out on one of their better penalty kickers.  Italy then proceeded to capitalize on this by winning the game in penalty kicks.  This is never the way I would want to win a game.  I would much rather have seen it won in regulation time.  I am of the opinion that the penalty kicks make it an individuals game and not a team game.  It doesn&#8217;t matter now though.  Italy wins!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy finally wins the world cup. I have been a fan of Italy ever since the 1994 World Cup. Too bad back then they weren&#8217;t able to pull through and Baggio missed his penalty kick. This time around things were different. Buffon played excellent in net, and the defense in front of him was great. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=121\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Italia Wins<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}