{"id":3926940,"date":"2026-07-13T10:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-ball-is-round-and-contrary-to-some-keepers-views-in-this-world-cup-it-has-performed-just-fine\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T10:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:01:05","slug":"the-ball-is-round-and-contrary-to-some-keepers-views-in-this-world-cup-it-has-performed-just-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-ball-is-round-and-contrary-to-some-keepers-views-in-this-world-cup-it-has-performed-just-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"The ball is round\u2014and contrary to some keepers&#8217; views, in this World Cup it has performed just fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Not every World Cup goal is a classic. Sometimes a half-hearted shot goes in as a result of little more than a goalkeeper&#8217;s error. And on those occasions, goalies may be inclined to find an excuse.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-ball-contrary-keepers-views-world.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not every World Cup goal is a classic. Sometimes a half-hearted shot goes in as a result of little more than a goalkeeper&#8217;s error. And on those occasions, goalies may be inclined to find an excuse. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}