{"id":1477,"date":"2008-06-13T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/13\/football-and-free-beer\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T02:00:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T08:00:49","slug":"football-and-free-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/football-and-free-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Football and Free Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">If the &#8220;thrill of victory&#8221; isn&#8217;t enough to motivate your country&#8217;s players, then how &#8217;bout a little beer&#8230;.Free Beer&#8230;.FOR A LIFETIME?!?! Apparently, this is the lengths that <a href=\"http:\/\/soccernet.espn.go.com\/news\/story?id=544984&amp;cc=5901\" target=\"_blank\">one Vienna brewery<\/a> is going to in order to motivate their Austrian national team in the Euro Cup.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/FreeBeer-718544.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/FreeBeer-718532.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/homer_simpson_on_a_chair_by_HamJava[1]-765661.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/homer_simpson_on_a_chair_by_HamJava[1]-765646.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">As a co-host country, Austria is competing in the finals for the first time but doesn&#8217;t bode the most impressive record. They are ranked 92nd on the world stage.<\/div>\n<p>Who knows if this nonsense will give the Austrians a competitive advantage? All I know is that by next year, the Austrian team (at least, their star players) will be fat and bloated by beer. The rest of the world will be &#8220;praying&#8221; that the Austrians don&#8217;t win&#8230;for fear that they may tear off their shirts in victory. Yikes!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the &#8220;thrill of victory&#8221; isn&#8217;t enough to motivate your country&#8217;s players, then how &#8217;bout a little beer&#8230;.Free Beer&#8230;.FOR A LIFETIME?!?! Apparently, this is the lengths that one Vienna brewery is going to in order to motivate their Austrian national team in the Euro Cup.<br \/>\nAs a co-host country, Austria is competing in the finals for the first time but doesn&#8217;t bode the most impressive record. They are ranked 92nd on the world stage.<br \/>\nWho knows if this nonsense will give the Austrians a competitive advantage? All I know is that by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}