{"id":5447,"date":"2026-07-16T02:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2026-07-16T02:17:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:17:31","slug":"world-cup-final-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5447","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Final set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it seems <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5445\">Monday&#8217;s post<\/a> didn&#8217;t actually\u00a0<em>post<\/em> until Tuesday, and I assure you, dear reader, it had nothing to do with the fact that I was &#8220;on vacation.&#8221; (I&#8217;m kind of always on vacation, so that&#8217;s a moot point anyway.)<\/p>\n<p>Being out of town for me doesn&#8217;t mean\u00a0<em>not working<\/em> but rather\u00a0<em>existing with unreliable Internet<\/em>, hence the delay.<\/p>\n<p>So I figured I should delay this one too, plus it would give me a chance to see who won the England-Argentina World Cup semifinal. Or rather, Inglaterra-Argentina, as went the broadcast I was watching at my neighborhood coffeehouse.<\/p>\n<p>What a game it was, winner not decided until the final moments, as Argentina pulled out some Argentina magic yet again. Just wow.<\/p>\n<p>Question is&#8230; can they do it one more time?<\/p>\n<p>Since Franklin and I will discuss other subjects on the podcast this Friday, might as well pose the question now, for whenever this posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it seems Monday&#8217;s post didn&#8217;t actually\u00a0post until Tuesday, and I assure you, dear reader, it had nothing to do with the fact that I was &#8220;on vacation.&#8221; (I&#8217;m kind of always on vacation, so that&#8217;s a moot point anyway.) &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5447\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5448,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions\/5448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}