I used to openly make fun of soccer. I played it as a child, but the fanaticism of the international fan has been lost on me for most of my life. Those people are out of control.<\/p>\n
Or so I thought.<\/p>\n
It’s World Cup Time and I am addicted. Hooked. I simply can’t get enough. I watch every match I can. I record the US games at 6:45 in the morning. I watched Brazil play in the middle of the night. Whatever strange little neuron makes people go crazy for running around chasing a white ball for an hour and a half and trying desperately to bash things with your head has fired in my brain. I am a Football fan. I know the lingo even.<\/p>\n
Who wants to trade shirts?<\/p>\n
(Also, we have a new winner<\/a>, check her out<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I used to openly make fun of soccer. I played it as a child, but the fanaticism of the international fan has been lost on me for most of my life. Those people are out of control. Or so I thought. It’s World Cup Time and I am addicted. Hooked. I simply can’t get enough. … Continue reading <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}