{"id":1265,"date":"2014-06-23T00:42:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T00:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2014-06-23T00:42:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T00:42:35","slug":"denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"Denied!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Terry Mosher<\/p>\n<p>Editor, Sports Paper<\/p>\n<p>The United States soccer team was just seconds away from advancing to the final 16 in the 2014 world Cup, and then it all blew up. Leading Portugal 2-1, the Yanks gave up a long pass, a cross and a header for the tying goal that forces them to escape from the powerful grips of Germany to advance.<\/p>\n<p>If the U.S. beats Germany or gains a draw it will advance to the final 16. But that is a big if.<\/p>\n<p>How you can allow a goal like that with just seconds left is almost unforgiveable. And if the U.S. does not advance, it will be remembered for a long, long time as just another moment in along history of World Cup denial for the Yanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper The United States soccer team was just seconds away from advancing to the final&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}