{"id":562,"date":"2008-01-27T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=562"},"modified":"2008-01-27T23:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T22:35:00","slug":"european-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/european-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"European champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/danmarkem-711109.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/danmarkem-711099.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Today <a href=\"http:\/\/sport.guardian.co.uk\/breakingnews\/feedstory\/0,,-7260203,00.html\">Denmark won the European Championship<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Team_handball\">handball<\/a>, beating Croatia 24-20 in the final.<\/p>\n<p>This is big news in Denmark, not quite as big as when we won the European Championship in football, but almost.  It&#8217;s totally dominating all Danish newspapers on the internet at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Handball is one of the &#8220;big four&#8221; ballgames that all Danish kids have to learn well at school: football, handball, volleyball and basketball.  I never liked it &ndash; it was too hard and fast for me at the time, but I still find it fascinating that it&#8217;s completely unknown here, given that it&#8217;s well-known in most of continental Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Denmark won the European Championship in handball, beating Croatia 24-20 in the final. This is big news in Denmark, not quite as big as when we won the European Championship in football, but almost. It&#8217;s totally dominating all Danish newspapers on the internet at the moment. Handball is one of the &#8220;big four&#8221; ballgames that all Danish kids have to learn well at school: football, handball, volleyball and basketball. I never liked it &ndash; it was too hard and fast for me at the time, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}