{"id":297,"date":"2006-06-07T13:12:16","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T21:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guapacha.com\/2006\/my-world-cup-predictions\/"},"modified":"2006-06-07T13:12:16","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T21:12:16","slug":"my-world-cup-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"My World Cup Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The local paper is having a &#8220;Beat the Press&#8221; competition to out-predict them in every game of the competition. Using the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/shared\/spl\/hi\/predictor\/html\/football\/world_cup_06\/default.stm\">World Cup predictor from the BBC<\/a> website I submitted the following entry:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th align=\"left\">Group A<\/th>\n<th align=\"left\">Group B<\/th>\n<th align=\"left\">Group C<\/th>\n<th align=\"left\">Group D<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Germany<\/td>\n<td>England<\/td>\n<td>Argentina<\/td>\n<td>Portugal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Poland<\/td>\n<td>Sweden<\/td>\n<td>Holland<\/td>\n<td>Mexico<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th align=\"left\">Group E<\/th>\n<th align=\"left\">Group F<\/th>\n<th align=\"left\">Group G<\/th>\n<th align=\"left\">Group H<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Italy<\/td>\n<td>Brazil<\/td>\n<td>France<\/td>\n<td>Spain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Czech Republic<\/td>\n<td>Croatia<\/td>\n<td>Switzerland<\/td>\n<td>Ukraine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th>Round of 16<\/th>\n<th>Quarterfinals<\/th>\n<th>Semifinals<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Germany<br \/>\nArgentina<br \/>\nEngland<br \/>\nPortugal<br \/>\nCroatia<br \/>\nFrance<br \/>\nBrazil<br \/>\nSpain<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Germany<br \/>\nFrance<br \/>\nEngland<br \/>\nBrazil<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Germany<br \/>\nBrazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th align=\"left\">First<\/th>\n<td>Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th align=\"left\">Second<\/th>\n<td>Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th align=\"left\">Third<\/th>\n<td>England<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th align=\"left\">Fourth<\/th>\n<td>France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center>You can see how I came to this conclusion by looking at my world cup predictor <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sol\/shared\/spl\/hi\/predictor\/html\/football\/world_cup_06\/default.stm?03000200020101010002000402000005010001010102020004000103030002000202000002010002020002000202010003000101030102000102010202010101030001040002020102000100030100020004020103000101020100000002020010101010011010101010011010010101\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local paper is having a &#8220;Beat the Press&#8221; competition to out-predict them in every game of the competition. Using the World Cup predictor from the BBC website I submitted the following entry: Group A Group B Group C Group D Germany England Argentina Portugal Poland Sweden Holland Mexico Group E Group F Group G [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-cup","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}