{"id":1807,"date":"2014-06-25T23:30:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T03:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2014-06-25T23:30:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T03:30:41","slug":"us-soccer-coach-jurgen-klinsmann-has-note-to-excuse-fans-from-work-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2014\/06\/25\/us-soccer-coach-jurgen-klinsmann-has-note-to-excuse-fans-from-work-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"US Soccer coach J\u00fcrgen Klinsmann has note to excuse fans from work on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/06\/soccer2.png\" alt=\"soccer2\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1808\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/06\/soccer2.png 960w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/06\/soccer2-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><br \/>\nWant to get out of work on Thursday to watch the US Men&#8217;s National Team play Germany.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand that this absence may reduce the productivity of your workplace, but I can assure you that it is for an important cause.&#8221; reads the note posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10152414132013941&#038;set=a.95698693940.88099.32421823940&#038;type=1&#038;fref=nf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The #USMNT has a critical World Cup game vs. Germany and we will need the full support of the nation if we are to advance to the next round.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So I guess we know who to blame if the US loses tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the way, you should act like a good leader and take the day off as well. Go USA!&#8221; concludes Klinsmann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to get out of work on Thursday to watch the US Men&#8217;s National Team play Germany. &#8220;I understand that this absence may reduce the productivity of your workplace, but I can assure you that it is for an important cause.&#8221; reads the note posted to Facebook. &#8220;The #USMNT has a critical World Cup game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-1807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}