{"id":16284,"date":"2016-12-29T08:22:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T15:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=16284"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:50:20","slug":"goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Goal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16285\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/167_6115-DNG-FCK-soccer-goal.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16285\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/167_6115-DNG-FCK-soccer-goal.jpg\" alt=\"FCK soccer goal\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rasmus Falk scores a goal for F.C. Kobenhavn<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This past summer I went to my third professional soccer match. <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/f-c-k%C3%B8benhavn\/>All three were in Copenhagen<\/a>. All three were blowouts in favor of the home team. All three were at a mostly empty Parken Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really understand how European soccer works, but F.C. Copenhagen won the Danish Superliga and the Danish Cup in the prior year and the Danish Superliga again before I saw this game. Maybe those games are better attended. <\/p>\n<p>By the time I&#8217;m in Denmark in the middle of summer things have moved on to the UEFA Europa League, in which FCK dominates in the early rounds and gets crushed in later rounds. I&#8217;m only there for the early rounds. On this night, FCK beat the Crusaders F.C. (Belfast, Ireland) 6-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past summer I went to my third professional soccer match. All three were in Copenhagen. All three were blowouts in favor of the home team. All three were at a mostly empty Parken Stadium. I don&#8217;t really understand how European soccer works, but F.C. Copenhagen won the Danish Superliga and the Danish Cup in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[20,345,76,78,419,594,423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32562,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16284\/revisions\/32562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}