{"id":4793,"date":"2010-06-23T14:22:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T14:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/23\/important-world-cup-updates\/"},"modified":"2010-06-23T14:22:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T14:22:53","slug":"important-world-cup-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/23\/important-world-cup-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Important World Cup Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US managed to survive yet another appalling lapse of officiating and <a href=\"http:\/\/soccernet.espn.go.com\/report?id=264048&#038;cc=5901&#038;ver=us\">beat Algeria 1-0<\/a> on a goal in stoppage time. Simultaneously (in some frame of reference), <a href=\"http:\/\/soccernet.espn.go.com\/report?id=264047&#038;cc=5901&#038;ver=us\">England beat Slovenia 1-0<\/a>. With <a href=\"http:\/\/soccernet.espn.go.com\/report?id=264041&#038;cc=5901&#038;ver=us\">South Korea advancing<\/a> yesterday, countries with current or forthcoming editions of <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> are 3-0 when it comes to advancing past group play. Meanwhile, France, where rights have not yet sold, was <a href=\"http:\/\/soccernet.espn.go.com\/report?id=264036&#038;cc=5901&#038;ver=us\">eliminated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also happy to report that Spanish translation rights have been sold, and a translation is in progress, so Spain can go into their final group play game without worrying about dog-physics karma. This leaves Germany as the major European nation still lacking an edition of <cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite>, heading into their game against Ghana. You&#8217;ve got eight minutes to buy those rights, German publishers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US managed to survive yet another appalling lapse of officiating and beat Algeria 1-0 on a goal in stoppage time. Simultaneously (in some frame of reference), England beat Slovenia 1-0. With South Korea advancing yesterday, countries with current or forthcoming editions of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog are 3-0 when it comes&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/23\/important-world-cup-updates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Important World Cup Updates<\/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":[67,18,142,51,37,132,143,52,43,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-books","category-how-to-teach","category-physics_books","category-pop_culture","category-publicity","category-sales","category-science_books","category-soccer","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793","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=4793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}