{"id":4998,"date":"2016-06-26T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T15:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=4998"},"modified":"2019-07-29T21:17:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T21:17:45","slug":"blog-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/06\/26\/blog-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2052-225x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16439 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2052-225x300-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This picture is not really great, but it is of the Mensa in Munster and when Germany is playing this fenced off area is packed full of people. \u00a0One night I headed over there, with no knowledge that Germany was playing, and to my surprise the Mensa was packed.\u00a0 Everyone was wearing a soccer jersey and had the German flag painted on their cheek.\u00a0 There were many screens placed throughout the building and a giant one outside.\u00a0 It looked liked a giant party, it was even free to watch the game with everyone, which I was not expecting.\u00a0 Soccer here plays the same role as football in America.\u00a0 It is a common event that people can come together with.\u00a0 A main difference between sports in America and soccer over here is that it promotes country pride.<\/p>\n<p>The only discussions I have had with classmates is whether Germany won or lost.\u00a0 I was not aware that the USA lost to Argentina, but it is understandable because soccer is not the most popular sport in the States.\u00a0 Therefore, I don\u2019t think it really matters because America unites together through different sports like football and baseball.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t really seen any forms of symbols about the European Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This picture is not really great, but it is of the Mensa in Munster and when Germany is playing this fenced off area is packed full of people. \u00a0One night I headed over there, with no knowledge that Germany was playing, and to my surprise the Mensa was packed.\u00a0 Everyone was wearing a soccer jersey&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16440,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions\/16440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}