{"id":1892650,"date":"2026-07-19T03:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T07:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892650"},"modified":"2026-07-19T04:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:23:57","slug":"the-biggest-takeaways-from-the-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892650","title":{"rendered":"The biggest takeaways from the 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 The World Cup final between Spain and defending champion Argentina marks the end of the biggest tournament in the competition\u2019s history. At the final whistle in New Jersey on Sunday, a record 104 games will have been played across almost six weeks and three countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/e45fd-the-biggest-takeaways-from-the-2026-world-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 The World Cup final between Spain and defending champion Argentina marks the end of the biggest tournament in the competition\u2019s history. At the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1892651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892650","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\/1892650","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=1892650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892652,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892650\/revisions\/1892652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}