{"id":7920,"date":"2010-12-03T20:21:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T01:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7920"},"modified":"2010-12-03T20:21:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T01:21:07","slug":"world-cup-score-russia-1-u-s-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7920\/world-cup-score-russia-1-u-s-0\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Score: Russia 1; U.S. 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not even former President Bill Clinton could <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/sports\/soccer\/news\/_\/id\/5878513\/money-talks-england-us-walk\" target=\"_blank\">sway the hearts and wallets<\/a> of the voters who shunned the United States in favor of Russia and Qatar to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.\u00a0 Apparently, the ad-lib prone ex-president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/106639\/usa-flubs-world-cup-pitch-still-likely-to-win.html \" target=\"_blank\">deviated from the script<\/a>, plugging his eponymous global initiative instead of making America\u2019s case for hosting the world\u2019s most popular sporting event.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, that honor will be enjoyed by Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia and the desert Muslim emirate of Qatar.\u00a0 Coming on the heels of the Olympic Committee\u2019s rejection of the Obama Administration\u2019s push to bring the Summer Games to Chicago that means the two most recent Democratic presidents (by definition, acceptable citizens in the international community) have failed to turn their supposed popularity into victories for their countries.<br \/>\nOh well; wait \u2018til next, next decade\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not even former President Bill Clinton could sway the hearts and wallets of the voters who shunned the United States in favor of Russia and Qatar to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.\u00a0 Apparently, the ad-lib prone ex-president deviated from the script, plugging his eponymous global initiative instead of making America\u2019s case for hosting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,501,226,2134,141,1766,1267],"class_list":["post-7920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-bill-clinton","tag-olympics","tag-qatar","tag-russia","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7922,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920\/revisions\/7922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}