{"id":969,"date":"2006-06-13T08:49:02","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T07:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2006\/06\/13\/world-cup-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2006-06-13T08:49:02","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T07:49:02","slug":"world-cup-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2006\/06\/13\/world-cup-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A note to the US team:<\/p>\n<p>Guys, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/front\/3964099.html\">pull your socks up<\/a> and start playing like grownups. You <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/ap\/soccer\/3961352.html\">made it to the Cup<\/a> when a lot of talented teams didn&#8217;t. 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