{"id":19082,"date":"2017-12-12T01:49:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T00:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/12\/it-looks-like-someones-gran-diego-maradona-statue-unveiled-in-india\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T01:49:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T00:49:44","slug":"it-looks-like-someones-gran-diego-maradona-statue-unveiled-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=19082","title":{"rendered":"&#039;It looks like someone&#039;s gran&#039;: Diego Maradona statue unveiled in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bronze likeness ridiculed after unveiling in Kolkata\u2018I\u2019m not a god of football\u2019 says former Argentina player Another football icon has been honoured by a statue with a bronze sculpture of the Argentina great, Diego Maradona, unveiled at a club in Kolkata, although the dubious likeness to the 1986 World Cup winner has attracted online ridicule. The 12-foot statue features the 1986 World Cup winner with a healthy head of hair and holding aloft the trophy he helped Argentina win in Mexico, but bears little resemblance to the then 25-year-old captain of the side. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2017\/dec\/12\/it-looks-like-someones-gran-diego-maradona-statue-unveiled-in-india\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;It looks like someone&#039;s gran&#039;: Diego Maradona statue unveiled in India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bronze likeness ridiculed after unveiling in Kolkata\u2018I\u2019m not a god of football\u2019 says former Argentina player Another football icon has been honoured by a statue with a bronze sculpture of the Argentina great, Diego Maradona, unveiled at a club in Kolkata, although the dubious likeness to the 1986 World Cup [&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-19082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19082","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=19082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}