{"id":657,"date":"2006-06-30T10:16:25","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T17:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2006-06-30T10:16:25","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T17:16:25","slug":"germany-vs-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/germany-vs-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany vs. Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/063006b.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=700 border=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p><center>[<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/063006.mov','','width=240,height=155')\">CRAZY ASS GERMANS VIDEO<\/a>]<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/063006a.jpg','','width=350,height=545')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/063006a_th.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=150 border=\"1\"\/><\/a>Today was all about The Game. The city is waaay busier today. Everyone&#8217;s in town for the Germany\/Argentina game. First off though is a little thing that caught my eye on a poster. A sand sculpture exhibit near one of the stations. Headed over there first and checked out some of the remarkable work. I just wouldn&#8217;t have the patience for that.<\/p>\n<p>The funniest thing is that when you walk in and come around the corner you&#8217;re face to face with the main sculpture. Problem is&#8230; is doesn&#8217;t look like what it&#8217;s supposed to look like. It&#8217;s supposed to be a a guy with his arm holding the World Cup on his head. Well, let&#8217;s just say it doesn&#8217;t look like that at all and looks much more like a very private moment between a man and his &#8216;lil buddy. [<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/77\/178593610_8053f43c7f_o.jpg','','width=1200,height=800')\">Judge for yourself<\/a>.] Ha ha ha&#8230; that&#8217;s awesome! Everyone that came around the corner was funny as you see them smile really big when they realize what they&#8217;re looking at. Or not really looking at. Good fun.<\/p>\n<p>After the sculpture thingy we headed over to Fan Fest in the Tiergarten. This was where the day was going to get crazy. And it didn&#8217;t disappoint. What a blast! Soooo many people just having a good time. Food, rides, giant TV screens, etc. I could write a thousand words and not really capture so tah dah&#8230; a video clip. 9 minutes of goofiness. There was also a map with pins where you could put in where you came from. Kinda interesting but since there was a guy from Easter Island attending the World Cup I think the accuracy might need some fine tuning.<\/p>\n<p>After the game we walked through Fan Fest a bit more and then headed back home. Making it an early night as it&#8217;s a travel day tomorrow and have to get packed and such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was all about The Game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28,16,18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-germany","category-photography","category-travel","category-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MOCs-aB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}