{"id":214,"date":"2010-07-07T18:07:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T22:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2010-11-13T02:56:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T06:56:14","slug":"netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care about soccer. Never have. I admit, I&#8217;m a typical American that way. But Rand was a HUGE soccer fan. He volunteered his Saturday mornings for ten years being a ref for a local kid&#8217;s league and played on two local teams as well.<\/p>\n<p>Rand was also born in Holland and while he came here as a kid, he was a resident alien; he had never given up his Netherlands citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>I just saw that the finals for the World Cup are down to Spain and&#8230;.Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Just that almost made me tear up. The final game is apparently on the 11th &#8211; two days shy of four months since his passing. I may just have to decide to like soccer &#8211; at least for one game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care about soccer. Never have. I admit, I&#8217;m a typical American that way. But Rand was a HUGE soccer fan. He volunteered his Saturday mornings for ten years being a ref for a local kid&#8217;s league and played on two local teams as well. Rand was also born in Holland and while he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-grief"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}