{"id":2218,"date":"2014-07-04T08:53:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T07:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deusexmachina.be\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2014-07-04T08:53:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T07:53:31","slug":"belgie-leert-amerika-een-lesje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/deusexmachina.be\/belgie-leert-amerika-een-lesje\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgi\u00eb leert Amerika een lesje&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; in nederigheid:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Americans are learning how to lose, and soccer is teaching them how to do it. For the longest time, second place in any competition, domestic or international, has been regarded in the USA as a disaster of unmitigated proportions. (Third was not even worth acknowledging.) While other countries celebrated their silver or bronze medals with parties and parades, American commentators thrust microphones into the faces of the \u201closers\u201d and asked, <em>sotto voce<\/em> and with unconcealed disappointment, \u201cWhat happened?\u201d or \u201cWhat went wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/02\/hooray-for-losers\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Paris Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; in nederigheid: Americans are learning how to lose, and soccer is teaching them how to do it. For the longest time, second place in any competition, domestic or international, has been regarded in the USA as a disaster of unmitigated proportions. (Third was not even worth acknowledging.) While other countries celebrated their silver or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/deusexmachina.be\/belgie-leert-amerika-een-lesje\/\" class=\"more-link\">Lees verder <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Belgi\u00eb leert Amerika een lesje&#8230;.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/deusexmachina.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/deusexmachina.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/deusexmachina.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deusexmachina.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deusexmachina.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/deusexmachina.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deusexmachina.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/deusexmachina.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deusexmachina.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deusexmachina.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}