{"id":1892185,"date":"2026-07-12T14:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892185"},"modified":"2026-07-13T07:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:24:13","slug":"world-cup-semifinals-four-previous-champions-a-bitter-rivalry-mbappe-vs-yamal-and-messi-vs-kane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892185","title":{"rendered":"World Cup semifinals: Four previous champions, a bitter rivalry, Mbapp\u00e9 vs Yamal and Messi vs Kane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 It&#8217;s a World Cup semifinal lineup for the ages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/d271d-world-cup-semifinals-four-previous-champions-a-bitter-rivalry-mbapp-vs-yamal-and-messi-vs-kane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 It&#8217;s a World Cup semifinal lineup for the ages. Click here to read the full article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1892186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892187,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892185\/revisions\/1892187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}