{"id":387,"date":"2006-07-12T10:28:17","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T10:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/12\/world-cup-postscript\/"},"modified":"2006-07-12T10:28:17","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T10:28:17","slug":"world-cup-postscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/12\/world-cup-postscript\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Post-Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davesez.com\/archives\/001117.php\">Dave Sez<\/a>, a <cite>Sports Illustrated<\/cite> columnist says that <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2006\/writers\/dr_z\/07\/10\/zidane\/index.html\">Zidane&#8217;s head-butt was understandable<\/a> because of all the flopping other players do:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So Zidane slammed a guy. He lost it. Writers all over the world are competing with themselves to heap scorn on France&#8217;s greatest player. You know something? I don&#8217;t blame him for getting sore. Almost every time I could find him on the screen, he had someone tugging at his shirt, tripping him or messing with him in some sneaky way.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is he doesn&#8217;t hit the canvas as the rest of those prima donnas do. So the ref must figure nothing is happening. Sure, he should have held off on the head butt, but to put the defeat of his team on his shoulders is a reach.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s certainly a different take on the matter. I haven&#8217;t watched Zidane enough to say one way or another, but to an American sports fan, the flopping does appear excessive and annoying.<\/p>\n<p>The head-butt was still pretty stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Dave Sez, a Sports Illustrated columnist says that Zidane&#8217;s head-butt was understandable because of all the flopping other players do: So Zidane slammed a guy. He lost it. Writers all over the world are competing with themselves to heap scorn on France&#8217;s greatest player. You know something? I don&#8217;t blame him for getting sore.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/12\/world-cup-postscript\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Cup Post-Script<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soccer","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}