{"id":8600,"date":"2025-05-10T08:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T08:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/?p=8600"},"modified":"2025-05-10T19:33:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T19:33:47","slug":"day-1-opening-game-and-south-africa-vs-mexico-the-build-up-the-partying-with-the-fans-and-the-mexicans-in-sandton-2010-is-here-and-to-be-a-part-of-the-opening-ceremony-was-freakin-fantastic-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/?p=8600","title":{"rendered":"Day 1-Opening Game and South Africa vs Mexico The Build Up, The partying with the fans and the Mexicans in Sandton.2010 IS HERE and to be a part of the opening ceremony was freakin fantastic. To watch your country play the opening game of a World Cup Final..truely special. The atmosphere was amazing. My first visit to Soccer City also fantastic.The Stadium or Calabash is a cauldron.You feel close to the pitch.As  a footie fan The thought of being so involved in a World Cup is mnd blowing.People can call me crazy or a lunatic or obsessive. In the Words of Bill Shankley. \u201cFootball is not about life and death.Its more than that\u201dThis is the World Cup,The Pinnacle of every fan and I intend to make the best of it.This is what i have waited for."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/103726663_608066936781509_1398044520887137979_n.jpg\" alt=\"Day 1-Opening Game and South Africa vs Mexico The Build Up, The partying with the fans and the Mexicans in Sandton.2010 IS HERE and to be a part of the opening ceremony was freakin fantastic. To watch your country play the opening game of a World Cup Final..truely special. The atmosphere was amazing. My first visit to Soccer City also fantastic.The Stadium or Calabash is a cauldron.You feel close to the pitch.As  a footie fan The thought of being so involved in a World Cup is mnd blowing.People can call me crazy or a lunatic or obsessive. In the Words of Bill Shankley. \u201cFootball is not about life and death.Its more than that\u201dThis is the World Cup,The Pinnacle of every fan and I intend to make the best of it.This is what i have waited for.\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-swoosh0018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8602,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions\/8602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}