{"id":145477,"date":"2023-08-06T16:53:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T20:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=145477"},"modified":"2023-08-06T17:52:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T21:52:11","slug":"textbook-ending-to-stellar-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=145477","title":{"rendered":"Textbook Ending to Stellar Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-145478 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/missed-300x197.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/missed-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/missed.png 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Missed It By This Much!<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>\u2018Sick Joke\u2019: Megan Rapinoe Ends Her Career with Missed Penalty Kick that Costs U.S. the World Cup<\/h3>\n<p><strong>SIMON KENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The international career of Megan Rapinoe ended in a dramatic penalty shoot-out against Sweden on Sunday with her failed kick at goal helping to send the U.S.A. team crashing out of the soccer World Cup underway in New Zealand and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe and Sophia Smith missed penalties that could have given the U.S. the win, and Kelley O\u2019Hara missed the Americans\u2019 final shot to give Sweden the opening it needed.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview after the dramatic finish to the contest staged in Melbourne, Australia, Rapinoe said: \u201cI mean, this is like a sick joke. For me personally, this is like dark comedy that I missed a penalty. This is the balance to the beautiful side of the game. I think it can be cruel.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2023\/08\/06\/sick-joke-megan-rapinoe-ends-her-career-with-missed-penalty-kick-that-costs-u-s-the-world-cup\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was a time not too long ago when I enjoyed watching the US women&#8217;s soccer team. As for Rapinoe the job, sweetheart, was to kick the ball through a target the size of a two-car garage. So the final act of her US hating virtue-signaling woke career was to torpedo her team&#8217;s chances on the world stage?<br \/>\nAwesome. I would have watched that.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missed It By This Much! \u2018Sick Joke\u2019: Megan Rapinoe Ends Her Career with Missed Penalty Kick &hellip; <a title=\"Textbook Ending to Stellar Career\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=145477\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Textbook Ending to Stellar Career<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":145478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[650,638,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-points-and-laughs","category-schadenfreude","category-sjw-idiocy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}