{"id":5465,"date":"2014-06-12T08:34:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T12:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=5465"},"modified":"2014-06-12T08:59:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T12:59:38","slug":"drinking-from-the-world-cup-the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=5465","title":{"rendered":"Drinking from the World Cup: The Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finally here.\u00a0 The greatest sporting event in the world (ok, I have it second to the NCAA tourney) kicks offs this afternoon in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since I decided to jump on the growing Belgium bandwagon for this World Cup, late last year, I&#8217;ve had this image in my head: rooting on the Belgians in the summer, while drinking an array of Belgian ales.\u00a0 Really, it was a daydream to get me through the frozen-over days of winter and, of course, an excuse to drink Belgian beer.<\/p>\n<p>As the tournament has approached, I&#8217;ve made my plan more ambitious.\u00a0 Each day of the tournament (or at least close to it), I plan on sampling an adult beverage from one of the nations competing in that day&#8217;s action.\u00a0 So far, in pursuit of this quest, I&#8217;ve made a visit to a craft beer store in Brooklyn and my local Wegman&#8217;s beer shop, here in PA.<\/p>\n<p>Each day, I plan on detailing that day&#8217;s drink, along with, I guess, some thoughts on the actual game action from the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>World Cup 2014 is here.\u00a0 Go Belgium!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finally here.\u00a0 The greatest sporting event in the world (ok, I have it second to the NCAA tourney) kicks offs this afternoon in Brazil. Ever since I decided to jump on the growing Belgium bandwagon for this World Cup, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=5465\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5472,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions\/5472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}