{"id":100397,"date":"2019-07-05T15:46:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T13:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/05\/what-its-like-covering-megan-rapinoe-the-world-cups-most-interesting-star\/"},"modified":"2019-07-05T15:46:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T13:46:22","slug":"what-its-like-covering-megan-rapinoe-the-world-cups-most-interesting-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=100397","title":{"rendered":"What it&#039;s like covering Megan Rapinoe, the World Cup&#039;s most interesting star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it\u2019s scoring crucial goals or holding the powerful to account, the USA winger is able to seize the moment on and off the fieldAs Megan Rapinoe steps up to the barricade in the mixed zone \u2013 the area where journalists try to interview players as they walk past \u2014 the energy shifts. Every reporter pushes forward to get as close as possible to the woman with short, pink hair and round pink-tinted sunglasses. There is not a more interesting player at this Women\u2019s World Cup, and no one has been more quotable.The Guardian has asked me to write this column about Rapinoe, so I jump in to ask a question first, prefacing it by pointing out that many fans are only learning about Rapinoe for the first time during this tournament. She interjects: \u201cLate to the party, people!\u201d The scrum of journalists laugh. Then the question: has Rapinoe always been so authentic and so blunt? Or was it a conscious decision? Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2019\/jul\/05\/megan-rapinoe-usa-womens-world-cup\" target=\"_blank\">What it&#039;s like covering Megan Rapinoe, the World Cup&#039;s most interesting star<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it\u2019s scoring crucial goals or holding the powerful to account, the USA winger is able to seize the moment on and off the fieldAs Megan Rapinoe steps up to the barricade in the mixed zone \u2013 the area where journalists try to interview players as they walk past \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}