{"id":1892496,"date":"2026-07-16T03:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892496"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:53:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:53:56","slug":"how-an-italian-sculptor-created-the-world-cup-trophy-that-became-an-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892496","title":{"rendered":"How an Italian sculptor created the World Cup trophy that became an icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN (AP) \u2014 The Italian sculptor who designed the FIFA World Cup trophy wanted to capture three sporting emotions in a single spiraling form: the athlete\u2019s struggle, the fan\u2019s jubilation and the moment of victory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/d273e-how-an-italian-sculptor-created-the-world-cup-trophy-that-became-an-icon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN (AP) \u2014 The Italian sculptor who designed the FIFA World Cup trophy wanted to capture three sporting emotions in a single spiraling form: the athlete\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1892497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892496","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\/1892496","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892498,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892496\/revisions\/1892498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}