{"id":20517,"date":"2010-06-22T16:09:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T16:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tommy_smyth_of_espn_interviewed_on_the_charlie_rose_show_about_the_world_cu\/"},"modified":"2010-06-22T16:09:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T16:09:20","slug":"tommy_smyth_of_espn_interviewed_on_the_charlie_rose_show_about_the_world_cu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20517","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Smyth of ESPN Interviewed on the Charlie Rose Show about the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLIE ROSE:  And soccer\u2019s popularity or football as they say everywhere else, grows like crazy?<\/p>\n<p>TOMMY SMYTH:  Yes, it\u2019s continuing to grow, there is no question about it.  I mean, you travel the streets of any major city in the United States now and you will find kids wearing the jerseys of Barcelona&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>CHARLIE ROSE:  And every bar\u2019s got it turned on along with baseball.<\/p>\n<p>TOMMY SMYTH:  Yeah, everybody\u2019s watching it now, and the ratings on ESPN have been tremendous, through the roof.<\/p>\n<p>CHARLIE ROSE:  Yeah, and high-definition television, unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>TOMMY SMYTH:  It\u2019s almost like you were on the field, Charlie.  You have to look out or somebody will kick you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlierose.com\/view\/interview\/11076\">Read or watch it all (click on the picture to start the video)<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLIE ROSE: And soccer\u2019s popularity or football as they say everywhere else, grows like crazy? TOMMY SMYTH: Yes, it\u2019s continuing to grow, there is no question about it. I mean, you travel the streets of any major city in the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20517\">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":[39,50,202,119,330,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-globalization","category-south-africa","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20517","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=20517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}