{"id":20668,"date":"2018-06-29T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uig-ae.com\/?guid=b9fa66744e2d536df19087f8f8e3c448"},"modified":"2018-06-29T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T18:05:00","slug":"how-to-stop-world-cup-teams-from-trying-to-lose-in-the-group-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uig-ae.com\/?p=20668","title":{"rendered":"How to stop World Cup teams from trying to lose in the group stage"},"content":{"rendered":"The group stage in the FIFA World Cup has become a process of survival and tactical positioning, where winning isn&#039;t always the goal, USA Today reports.\u00a0","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group stage in the FIFA World Cup has become a process of survival and tactical positioning, where winning isn&#8217;t always the goal, USA Today reports.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uig-ae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uig-ae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uig-ae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uig-ae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uig-ae.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uig-ae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20669,"href":"https:\/\/uig-ae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20668\/revisions\/20669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uig-ae.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uig-ae.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uig-ae.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}