{"id":1776,"date":"2018-04-09T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2018-04-09T16:30:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T20:30:38","slug":"whos-winning-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/09\/whos-winning-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s winning the World Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1766\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1766\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AW04092018-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1766\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AW04092018-3-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Who's winning the World Cup?\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who&#8217;s winning the World Cup?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Let\u2019s see. Arguably, the three natural candidates are: a. Brazil: Five-time champion, two-time runner up, and number 2 on FIFA\u2019s men\u2019s ranking. b. Germany: Four-time champion (current champion) three-time runner up, and number 1 on FIFA\u2019s men\u2019s ranking. c. Argentina: Two-time champion, three-time runner up, and number 4 on FIFA\u2019s men\u2019s ranking. They also have Lionel Messi, the most talented player in the world who, as an adult, is yet to win a title with Argentina. Now, considering that the only time a South American team has won a World Cup in Europe was in 1958, I would say Germany will win the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s see. Arguably, the three natural candidates are: a. Brazil: Five-time champion, two-time runner up, and number 2 on FIFA\u2019s men\u2019s ranking. b. Germany: Four-time champion (current champion) three-time runner up, and number 1 on FIFA\u2019s men\u2019s ranking. c. Argentina: Two-time champion, three-time runner up, and number 4 on FIFA\u2019s men\u2019s ranking. They also have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/09\/whos-winning-the-world-cup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who&#8217;s winning the World Cup?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[203],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}