{"id":15795,"date":"2017-11-19T01:05:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T00:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/19\/italys-self-esteem-has-taken-a-beating-but-i-still-wouldnt-live-anywhere-else\/"},"modified":"2017-11-19T01:05:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T00:05:46","slug":"italys-self-esteem-has-taken-a-beating-but-i-still-wouldnt-live-anywhere-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=15795","title":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s self-esteem has taken a beating, but I still wouldn\u2019t live anywhere else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dumped out of the World Cup, mired in political controversy, the country\u2019s pride has been wounded. Time to take refuge in some traditional delights \u2026Millions of Italians have been understandably despondent for the past few days. The results of the regional elections in Sicily proved that former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is back in the big time. With a face that looks more sinister with each passing year, the 81-year-old politician took the credit for a victory in which his rightwing coalition won more than double the votes of the left.Then, on Monday evening, the Italian football team were dumped out of the World Cup in the qualifying stages, beaten in the playoffs by the humble but hard-working Swedes. For the first time since 1958, the Azzurri \u2013 four-time winners \u2013 won\u2019t even be at the tournament. \u201cIt feels like not being invited to your own birthday party,\u201d said a glum Italian friend. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/nov\/19\/italy-self-esteem-takes-a-beating-world-cup-political-controversy\" target=\"_blank\">Italy\u2019s self-esteem has taken a beating, but I still wouldn\u2019t live anywhere else<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dumped out of the World Cup, mired in political controversy, the country\u2019s pride has been wounded. Time to take refuge in some traditional delights \u2026Millions of Italians have been understandably despondent for the past few days. The results of the regional elections in Sicily proved that former prime minister Silvio [&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-15795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795","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=15795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}