{"id":654473,"date":"2018-06-26T10:11:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T14:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=654473"},"modified":"2018-06-26T10:11:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T14:11:26","slug":"column-video-refereeing-a-boon-and-a-bust-at-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=654473","title":{"rendered":"Column: Video refereeing a boon and a bust at World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/column-video-refereeing-a-boon-and-a-bust-at-world-cup\/17655084\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/soccer\/2018\/06\/26\/17655084\/media_5ed27dda533542de9b72e44c85ba33d0-DMID1-5f8tjwhaw-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Russia_Soccer_WCup_Nigeria_Iceland_57421\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As must have been the case with the first glimmers of electric lights in the 19th century, video assistant referees benefited from an initial &#8220;Wow! The technology works!&#8221; buzz when they first plugged themselves in at this World Cup. Many observers were quickly won over, like wide-eyed kids switching on new gizmos. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/column-video-refereeing-a-boon-and-a-bust-at-world-cup\/17655084\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/column-video-refereeing-a-boon-and-a-bust-at-world-cup\/17655084\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Column: Video refereeing a boon and a bust at World Cup\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As must have been the case with the first glimmers of electric lights in the 19th century, video assistant referees benefited from an initial &#8220;Wow!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654473","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=654473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=654473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}