{"id":367,"date":"2016-04-05T14:33:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/daykev10\/?p=50"},"modified":"2016-04-11T00:57:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T07:57:53","slug":"fussballer-culture-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/fussballer-culture-in-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Fussballer Culture in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the beginning of time, Germans have been masters of the game of football. With names like Muller and Beckenbauer, and their most recent World Cup victory to boot, I find myself asking the age old question yet again, what do they know that we don&#8217;t? I, like most football fans in America, have always wondered why we, a huge country with vast resources and a plethora of athletes are time and time again simply unable to compete at the international level. Arguments range from &#8216;our best athletes play real American football&#8217; to &#8216;the game is too slow&#8217;. I can personally understand where these arguments come from, even if I don&#8217;t agree with them. However, I believe it goes deeper than that. I believe football is so deeply embedded in the German culture on a scale that we can&#8217;t comprehend. I&#8217;ve played football all my life and honestly it is one of the most important things in the world to me. I consider myself a student of the game. I will use what resources and knowledge I have of the game as well as the German culture to see if I can infiltrate my way into this inner circle and uncover the secret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the beginning of time, Germans have been masters of the game of football. With names like Muller and Beckenbauer, and their most recent World Cup victory to boot, I find myself asking the age old question yet again, what do they know that we don&rsquo;t? I, like most football fans in America, have always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}