{"id":468,"date":"2013-07-07T23:56:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T23:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/team-bates.com\/littlerubberpellets\/?p=468"},"modified":"2013-07-07T23:57:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T23:57:52","slug":"canadas-gold-cup-opener-was-going-okay-i-guess-until-it-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/team-bates.com\/littlerubberpellets\/2013\/07\/07\/canadas-gold-cup-opener-was-going-okay-i-guess-until-it-wasnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Gold Cup opener was going okay, I guess, until it wasn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buh. So I watched the first Canadian game in the Gold Cup. Are you sure you want to hear about it? <\/p>\n<p>Martinique aren&#8217;t bad so much as they&#8217;re static, drawing from a player pool that&#8217;s half French oldsters and half natives of the French overseas department. They spent most of the time pushing Canada without finding any luck, going into second-half injury time tied 0-0. That&#8217;s sort of a result if your expectations were shattered by the most recent World Cup qualifying campaign but not at all a result when you think that six years ago, Canada were ranked fourth in CONCACAF and now they&#8217;re getting bossed around by a non-FIFA team. Milan Borjan was dependable. Canada&#8217;s rising stars need more time with each other, and Canada was not without chances. <\/p>\n<p>That would have been something you could settle for, until they scored from outside the box on 93 minutes. By all accounts, Canada need 4 points to succeed, which would mean they need at least a point against Mexico. So there&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buh. So I watched the first Canadian game in the Gold Cup. Are you sure you want to hear about it? Martinique aren&#8217;t bad so much as they&#8217;re static, drawing from a player pool that&#8217;s half French oldsters and half natives of the French overseas department. They spent most of the time pushing Canada without [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,140,141],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-canada-mnt","tag-canada-mens-team","tag-concacaf-gold-cup","tag-martinique-mens-team","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/team-bates.com\/littlerubberpellets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/team-bates.com\/littlerubberpellets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/team-bates.com\/littlerubberpellets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/team-bates.com\/littlerubberpellets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/team-bates.com\/littlerubberpellets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/team-bates.com\/littlerubberpellets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/team-bates.com\/littlerubberpellets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/team-bates.com\/littlerubberpellets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/team-bates.com\/littlerubberpellets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/team-bates.com\/littlerubberpellets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}