{"id":2307,"date":"2010-07-12T11:35:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T09:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2010-07-12T11:35:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T09:35:20","slug":"not-one-single-minute-watching-world-cup-but-i-kept-up-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/not-one-single-minute-watching-world-cup-but-i-kept-up-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Not one single minute watching World Cup but I kept up to date."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the World Cup ending last night and Spain being crowned the champions, I have a confession to make.&nbsp; I did not watch 1 single minute of the World Cup on either the TV or live in a stadium.&nbsp; I did not even attend one of the Fan Fests or Fan Walks.<\/p>\n<p>This might sound very unpatriotic but I can assure you I took an active interest in it and am very proud at the way that South Africa hosted the event and presented the country doing it.&nbsp; The main reason is that I do not own a TV and am just not into soccer that much to spend money in a restaurant or other venue watching it.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, I have kept up with whatever was going on by mainly using social media like <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mariusb\/\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mariusbock\/\">Facebook<\/a>.&nbsp; And I must say that following the soccer on Twitter was probably much better than on TV if I have to listen to the tweets.&nbsp; Heavy breathing commentators is just not my scene and totally missing Madiba by showing an advert &#8211; that is just not on. <\/p>\n<p>Also I had this great little app on my Linux workstation that got updated via the Internet, so I always knew the stand of the teams in the group stages or during the knockout rounds. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_cNPSEbi7GQk\/TDrcGkgFqRI\/AAAAAAAAAjU\/7IiY3Q3hNfY\/wctable.png\" rel=\"lightbox[2307]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 500px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_cNPSEbi7GQk\/TDrcGkgFqRI\/AAAAAAAAAjU\/7IiY3Q3hNfY\/wctable.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This just goes to show, in this day and age one can be up to date and take part without TV and old way media by using new way media.&nbsp; And the cherry on the cake is that my debt levels is way less than lots of other people that went on a spending spree and blame it on the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/2010%20soccer%20world%20cup\" rel=\"tag\">2010 soccer world cup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the World Cup ending last night and Spain being crowned the champions, I have a confession to make.&nbsp; I did not watch 1 single minute of the World Cup on either the TV or live in a stadium.&nbsp; I <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/not-one-single-minute-watching-world-cup-but-i-kept-up-to-date\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Not one single minute watching World Cup but I kept up to date.<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}