{"id":117201,"date":"2022-12-13T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T21:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117201"},"modified":"2022-12-13T17:01:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T22:01:19","slug":"congratulations-to-argentina-who-beat-croatia-in-the-world-cup-semi-final-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117201","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Argentina who beat Croatia in the World Cup Semi-final today"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Argentina are in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a> Final! &#x1f525;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adidasfootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@adidasfootball<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Qatar2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Qatar2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1602769111523774467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This was a Diego Maradona performance from Lionel Messi. This was one man inspiring his team-mates through his goal, his assist, his genius. This was the Argentina captain running the show, even when seemingly inhibited from running at full pelt by a slight hamstring strain, driving his team to the World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>Even Luka Modric and his gutsy side who fear no one had to bow down before Messi. Even Croatia\u2019s usually noisy supporters fell silent as they stared open-mouthed at Messi\u2019s brilliance. He took his penalty unerringly, helped create Julian \u00c1lvarez\u2019s first and then destroyed the new prince of European centre backs, Josko Gvardiol, by finally racing through the gears and setting up a simple finish for \u00c1lvarez.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/argentina-vs-croatia-magic-messi-inspires-argentina-to-world-cup-final-3hdgzt0mw\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina are in the #FIFAWorldCup Final! &#x1f525;@adidasfootball | #Qatar2022 &mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) December 13, 2022 This was a Diego Maradona performance from Lionel Messi. This was one man inspiring his team-mates through his goal, his assist, his genius.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117201\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[607,466,119,208,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argentina","category-croatia","category-globalization","category-south-america","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117205,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117201\/revisions\/117205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}