{"id":1438,"date":"2014-06-19T20:26:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T03:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2014-06-19T20:26:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T03:26:58","slug":"well-this-is-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1438","title":{"rendered":"Well, This Is Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/2864483\/world-cup-2014-soccer-brazil-america\/?iid=tabvidrecirc\">This,<\/a> that is.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not exactly the biggest sports fan in the world, but I&#8217;d have to be dead not to notice how much more popular soccer is in the USA than when I was in high school. Back then, there were no professional soccer teams in the USA, and the USA typically didn&#8217;t even bother to field a team for the World Cup (an event most in the USA were blissfully ignorant of).<\/p>\n<p>Many of my co-workers are talking about the World Cup, and there&#8217;s typically a TV showing matches in the break room. That would have been unthinkable in the USA even 20 years ago. Yes, they&#8217;re a young crowd and the demographic from which soccer fans are disproportionately drawn in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>But, so what. 20 years ago, you could pick <em>any<\/em> age demographic you wanted, and you wouldn&#8217;t have found much interest at all in professional soccer in the USA. There&#8217;s been literally <em>tremendous<\/em> growth in the popularity of soccer in this country.Arguing that Americans &#8220;don&#8217;t like&#8221; soccer and that it&#8217;s somehow a failure because it hasn&#8217;t immediately soared to No. 1 popularity amongst all sports as soon as it was introduced professionally is just plain stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, that is. I&#8217;m not exactly the biggest sports fan in the world, but I&#8217;d have to be dead not to notice how much more popular soccer is in the USA than when I was in high school. Back then, there were no professional soccer teams in the USA, and the USA typically didn&#8217;t even [&hellip;]<\/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-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}