{"id":35432,"date":"2026-07-06T10:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35432"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:07:37","slug":"money-well-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/06\/money-well-spent\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Well Spent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However much we spent ensuring a US\/England World Cup final where the US prevails in extra time, it will be the best money spent on the Semiquincentennial Celebration yet.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, I know this post might be negated later today when the US takes on Belgium, and, yes, I am ashamed I know what &#8220;extra time&#8221; means in Euroball, but I watched a bunch of Premier League footy twenty years ago when the NHL was locked out, so I kinda(?) have an excuse.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However much we spent ensuring a US\/England World Cup final where the US prevails in extra time, it will be the best money spent on the Semiquincentennial Celebration yet. (Yes, I know this post might be negated later today when the US takes on Belgium, and, yes, I am ashamed I know what &#8220;extra time&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35433,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35432\/revisions\/35433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}