{"id":34847,"date":"2011-07-14T09:10:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T17:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=34847"},"modified":"2011-07-14T09:10:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T17:10:49","slug":"im-rooting-for-the-u-s-womens-soccer-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=34847","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Rooting For The U.S. Women&#8217;s Soccer Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until this week, I never cared about any women&#8217;s team sport. I found them all boring to watch. It would never occur to me to watch men sew or knit of raise babies and it didn&#8217;t seem interesting to me to watch women parallel park or play basketball.<\/p>\n<p>I still hold that a good high school boy&#8217;s team can beat the best women&#8217;s team in the world in any sport, be it soccer or basketball or baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I found Sunday&#8217;s victory over Brazil by the U.S. women&#8217;s soccer team to be a thrilling match (I just saw the highlights).<\/p>\n<p>I watched all of yesterday&#8217;s game against France and found it compelling.<\/p>\n<p>And on Sunday, I&#8217;ll be rooting for America versus Japan in the women&#8217;s soccer World Cup final. <\/p>\n<p>Watching women play basketball, however, that is painful. The skill level is just so low. The women move slowly (compared to men) and their shots look awkward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until this week, I never cared about any women&#8217;s team sport. I found them all boring to watch. It would never occur to me to watch men sew or knit of raise babies and it didn&#8217;t seem interesting to me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=34847\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[22],"tags":[3897,27132,27135,27133,9802,27134],"class_list":["post-34847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-babies","tag-parallel-park","tag-skill-level","tag-soccer-team","tag-soccer-world-cup","tag-team-sport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34847","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=34847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34848,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34847\/revisions\/34848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}