{"id":39480,"date":"2014-07-10T23:55:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T03:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39480"},"modified":"2020-07-12T23:56:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T03:56:16","slug":"best-of-the-2014-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39480","title":{"rendered":"Best of the 2014 World Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-39481 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/worldcup_bests.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/worldcup_bests.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/worldcup_bests-300x130.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Man, it\u2019s been over a day since the humiliating demoralization of Brazil has occurred, and I still can\u2019t get enough of seeing all the clips, gifs and photographs of miserable crying Brazilians everywhere.\u00a0 It never fails to bring me to a degree of laughter, and I know that this is going to be one of those things that I hold on to longer than most others, and will be able to derive enjoyment from it for a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Regardless, to be perfectly honest, I can\u2019t say that I really care about what happens from here on, as far as the World Cup is concerned.\u00a0 My nationalistic reasons for watching with vested interest were dashed when South Korea jobbed like Lex Luger and Buff Bagwell getting squashed by Chuck Palumbo and Sean O\u2019Haire, and then the United States losing to Belgium like they were the 2004 Lakers.\u00a0 I\u2019m cool with Germany, since I\u2019ve admired the way they play and go about their business, but really I couldn\u2019t care less if they win it all or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">However, there\u2019s a good chance that I\u2019ll still catch a remaining game or two, and it\u2019s for one reason:\u00a0<strong>Lynsey Hipgrave<\/strong>.\u00a0 She\u2019s the attractive blonde studio hostess that\u2019s been anchoring most of the studio analysis on ESPN throughout the entire tournament, and I have to say that I\u2019m quite smitten by her now.\u00a0 Call it a Yankee thing or something, but aside from the obvious aesthetic appeal, there\u2019s simply the pleasure of listening to her speak with the English accent that those of us in the States are typically drawn to, from that grass-is-greener perspective, but all in all, I\u2019m convinced that this lovely total package is what makes it worth keeping the television on a little bit longer after a match is concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">So the question becomes, what\u00a0<em>is<\/em>\u00a0the best thing to come out of the 2014 World Cup?\u00a0 Lynsey Hipgrave is undoubtedly easy on the eyes and the ears, and I don\u2019t like to change the channel when she\u2019s on the screen, but damn the humiliating destruction of pretty much all of Brazil was truly something to behold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I can\u2019t really pick.\u00a0 I\u2019m\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/VV1XWJN3nJo\">torn<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, it\u2019s been over a day since the humiliating demoralization of Brazil has occurred, and I still can\u2019t get enough of seeing all the clips, gifs and photographs of miserable crying Brazilians everywhere.\u00a0 It never fails to bring me to a degree of laughter, and I know that this is going to be one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39480\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best of the 2014 World Cup?<\/span><\/a><\/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":[164,15,52,69],"class_list":["post-39480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-futbol","tag-og","tag-owned","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39482,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39480\/revisions\/39482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}