{"id":149857,"date":"2023-08-13T05:39:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T13:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=149857"},"modified":"2023-08-13T05:41:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T13:41:38","slug":"ive-started-following-the-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=149857","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Started Following The Women&#8217;s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I pay minimal attention to women&#8217;s sports because the product is so inferior to what 14 year old boys can produce, let alone men. This is true for soccer. A high school boys team <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/soccer\/news\/a-dallas-fc-under-15-boys-squad-beat-the-u-s-womens-national-team-in-a-scrimmage\/\">can and has thrashed the American women&#8217;s national soccer team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet I&#8217;ve started paying attention to the Matildas (Australia&#8217;s women&#8217;s team) because Australia has started paying attention. By following the team, I feel attached to the consciousness of millions of Australians. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2023-08-13\/matildas-vs-france-most-watched-television-event-of-2023\/102724272\">Australia&#8217;s ABC reports<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Matildas v France World Cup match pulls the biggest TV audience of 2023<\/p>\n<p>The viewership for the Matildas v France match surpassed the audience of any AFL or NRL grand final, as well as any State of Origin match. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It feels good to have something that pulls the nation together. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I pay minimal attention to women&#8217;s sports because the product is so inferior to what 14 year old boys can produce, let alone men. This is true for soccer. A high school boys team can and has thrashed the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=149857\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149857"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149861,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149857\/revisions\/149861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}