{"id":42,"date":"2006-05-29T10:40:14","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/?p=42"},"modified":"2006-05-29T11:07:58","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T16:07:58","slug":"parappa-the-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Parappa the Midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"graphics\/hartford\/parappa.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The US isn&#8217;t taken seriously by other countries as a competitor for soccer, so therefore the best way to get us to be taken seriously is to liken our players to rapping cartoon dogs*.  The more I thought about it, though, the more the character and the slogan make sense for the team.  The detail on his hat is the snakeball logo redone in the style of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whimsyload.com\">Rodney Greenblatt<\/a>, Parappa&#8217;s creator:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"graphics\/snakehat.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><small>*I&#8217;m pretty sure this makes Olsen the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snpp.com\/episodes\/4F12.html\">Poochie<\/a> of the WC 23.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US isn&#8217;t taken seriously by other countries as a competitor for soccer, so therefore the best way to get us to be taken seriously is to liken our players to rapping cartoon dogs*. The more I thought about it, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/?p=42\">tell me more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}