{"id":185907,"date":"2014-07-18T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/18\/best-soccer-hooliganism-ever1-stellar-parthenon\/"},"modified":"2014-07-18T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T23:16:00","slug":"best-soccer-hooliganism-ever1-stellar-parthenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/18\/best-soccer-hooliganism-ever1-stellar-parthenon\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Soccer Hooliganism Ever!!!1!!! &#8211; Stellar Parthenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was at the World Cup, when the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/ian-bremmer\/2014\/07\/17\/world-cup-chants-reveal-true-state-of-u-s-german-relations\/\">US team played the German team<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">As Germany basks in its World Cup victory, it\u2019s easy to forget that one of the most telling geopolitical moments of the tournament came during the Germany-U.S. game. As American fans chanted \u201cU-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!\u201d, <b>the Germans countered with, \u201cN-S-A! N-S-A! N-S-A!<\/b>\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The author tries to make the bigger point about America&#8217;s role in the world, that our allies are increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of the indispensable America.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6130uaI.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"100\" \/>While I agree that this is true, particularly with regard to the next generation coming online, this is not my takeaway on this story.<\/p>\n<p>My takeaway is that Germans must be the cleverest soccer rowdies in the world, though I will acknowledge that, &#8220;cleverest soccer rowdy,&#8221; is a lot like, &#8220;world&#8217;s hairiest naked mole rat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was at the World Cup, when the US team played the German team: As Germany basks in its World Cup victory, it\u2019s easy to forget that one of the most telling geopolitical moments of the tournament came during the Germany-U.S. game. As American fans chanted \u201cU-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!\u201d, the Germans countered with, \u201cN-S-A! N-S-A! &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1062,984,1100,1057,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-espionage","category-europe","category-funny","category-sports","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}