{"id":91,"date":"2004-07-01T17:45:54","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T15:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=91"},"modified":"2004-07-01T17:45:54","modified_gmt":"2004-07-01T15:45:54","slug":"england-expert-sore-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2004\/07\/01\/england-expert-sore-losers\/","title":{"rendered":"England: Expert Sore Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC news has a wonderful, if incredibly bitter, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/3856059.stm\">piece on the misfortunes of England in the world of sports,<\/a> the Euro 2004 soccer loss to Portugal being among the recent highlights:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It takes years of practice and dedication which mere amateurs would have no idea about. Anyone can lose anonymously or unmemorably, but raising your game to lose spectacularly takes a sense of drama of which Shakespeare himself would be proud.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cheer up, mate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC news has a wonderful, if incredibly bitter, piece on the misfortunes of England in the world of sports, the Euro 2004 soccer loss to Portugal being among the recent highlights: It takes years of practice and dedication which mere amateurs would have no idea about. Anyone can lose anonymously or unmemorably, but raising your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2004\/07\/01\/england-expert-sore-losers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;England: Expert Sore Losers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}