{"id":18058,"date":"2026-07-23T08:24:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/the-beautiful-games-ugly-paradox\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T08:24:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:24:58","slug":"the-beautiful-games-ugly-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/the-beautiful-games-ugly-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"The beautiful game\u2019s ugly paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>For the legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly, \u201cSome people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it\u2019s much more serious than that.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/opinion\/1310215\/the-beautiful-games-ugly-paradox\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly, \u201cSome people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it\u2019s much more serious than that.\u201d Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}