{"id":6244,"date":"2009-10-18T14:47:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T06:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=6244"},"modified":"2010-06-02T16:16:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T08:16:52","slug":"liverpool-0-sunderland-1-thanks-to-beach-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/10\/18\/liverpool-0-sunderland-1-thanks-to-beach-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool 0 Sunderland 1, thanks to beach ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not a soccer fan \u2013 but there\u2019s a bizarre <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/football\/2009\/oct\/18\/premier-league-liverpool-beachball\">bit of news<\/a> making the English soccer circuit right now. Apparently about how a young boy from the Liverpool side threw a large red balloon ball into the pitch, and distracted the goalie long enough for a Sunderland player to get one right in. Here\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZPXcTw5nXTc&amp;feature=player_embedded\">link<\/a> to the video:<\/p>\n<p>Yeah \u2013 the goal keeper was looking at the balloon and not the ball.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not a soccer fan \u2013 but there\u2019s a bizarre bit of news making the English soccer circuit right now. Apparently about how a young boy from the Liverpool side threw a large red balloon ball into the pitch, and<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/10\/18\/liverpool-0-sunderland-1-thanks-to-beach-ball\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Liverpool 0 Sunderland 1, thanks to beach ball<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-news-letters","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-12-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}