{"id":912,"date":"2010-07-01T09:26:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T15:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=912"},"modified":"2010-07-01T09:31:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T15:31:24","slug":"support-the-bid-sign-the-petition-world-cup-2018-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"Support the Bid &#8211; Sign the Petition &#8211; World Cup 2018 USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve hesitated to spread this via email, but blog posts are different.\u00c2\u00a0 You can always ignore it :).<\/p>\n<p>A grass-roots effort is being mounted to bring the World Cup to the USA in 2018 or 2022; the point is that American viewership of World Cup games is the highest that it&#8217;s ever been, interest in Soccer is at an all-time high, and America would be a great host.<\/p>\n<p>It also helps that Landon Donovan, who scored the winning goal against Algeria in this year&#8217;s World Cup, and who also played AYSO Soccer, is involved in the effort.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to submit your electronic signature to the bid, go here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gousabid.com\/page\/s\/sticker\/\">http:\/\/www.gousabid.com\/page\/s\/sticker\/<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Signing up will put your email address on their (non-sell) list, which you can then unsubscribe from.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gousabid.com\/city\/local\/seattle-wa\/\">Seattle, WA<\/a> &#8211; my old home and home to my mom and brother, and I think a cousin, is one of the cities in the running to host the games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve hesitated to spread this via email, but blog posts are different.\u00c2\u00a0 You can always ignore it :). A grass-roots effort is being mounted to bring the World Cup to the USA in 2018 or 2022; the point is that American viewership of World Cup games is the highest that it&#8217;s ever been, interest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids-family","category-rantings-ravings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}