{"id":52,"date":"2004-08-13T12:50:29","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T17:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=52"},"modified":"2004-08-26T20:59:32","modified_gmt":"2004-08-27T01:59:32","slug":"feel-good-story-iraqi-olympians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Feel-Good Story:  Iraqi Olympians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Target Centermass is now, with this post, hitting its century mark, 100 posts and I&#8217;m sticking with it.  I&#8217;ve decided to devote this post to the <a href=\"LINK HERE\" target=\"_blank\">Iraqi soccer team&#8217;s surprising 4-2 win<\/a> over Portugal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This victory will be received with happiness by my people, who have suffered through much,&#8221; said Iraqi coach Adnan Hamad, whose countrymen were already taking to the streets of Baghdad, lighting up the night sky with streaks of celebratory gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>The stunning victory over a team that made it to final of the recent Euro 2004 tournament brought a rare moment of joy for Iraqis plagued by violence, chaos and constant power outages.<\/p>\n<p>Across their homeland, they watched the game on television at home and at cafes. Even people at a Baghdad barbershop took time out of their late-night haircuts to celebrate the goals. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Target Centermass is now, with this post, hitting its century mark, 100 posts and I&#8217;m sticking with it. I&#8217;ve decided to devote this post to the Iraqi soccer team&#8217;s surprising 4-2 win over Portugal. &#8220;This victory will be received with happiness by my people, who have suffered through much,&#8221; said Iraqi coach Adnan Hamad, whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}