{"id":33196,"date":"2012-06-23T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/germany_beats_greece_4-2_to_reach_the_euro_2012_semifinals\/"},"modified":"2012-06-23T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T18:00:24","slug":"germany_beats_greece_4-2_to_reach_the_euro_2012_semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33196","title":{"rendered":"Germany beats Greece 4-2 to reach the Euro 2012 Semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> With Chancellor Angela Merkel cheering every step of the way, Germany dominated Greece \u201d\u201d on the soccer field.<\/p>\n<p>The Germans reached the European Championship semifinals for a record seventh time by beating Greece 4-2 Friday in a match played amid the contentious political backdrop between the countries.<\/p>\n<p>But just as in the real world, where Germany has been a major contributor to economic bailouts for Greece, the three-time champions were in control at the Arena Gdansk. And after the match, Merkel visited the players in the changing room.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jSHNt1vbn0bs9U-6U_PI2eGvqwuw?docId=7a2fac20f787402987ff3292572d24bd\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Chancellor Angela Merkel cheering every step of the way, Germany dominated Greece \u201d\u201d on the soccer field. The Germans reached the European Championship semifinals for a record seventh time by beating Greece 4-2 Friday in a match played amid<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33196\">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":[39,50,200,478,454,125,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-europe","category-germany","category-greece","category-men","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33196","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=33196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}