{"id":47252,"date":"2018-06-28T15:40:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T13:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/28\/corruption-and-fascism-when-politics-and-the-world-cup-collide-video-explainer\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T15:40:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T13:40:15","slug":"corruption-and-fascism-when-politics-and-the-world-cup-collide-video-explainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=47252","title":{"rendered":"Corruption and fascism: when politics and the World Cup collide \u2013 video explainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Cup ought to give us all a break from the tensions of global politics, except that\u2019s rarely the case. Amid talk of a return to Cold War, Russia 2018 is just the latest occasion when football\u2019s greatest event has threatened to collide with the combustible world of politicsMarina Hyde: a chance to be reminded of our self-delusionsAndrzej Krauze on Putin\u2019s World Cup \u2013 cartoonThe long read: How Russia won the World Cup Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/video\/2018\/jun\/28\/corruption-and-fascism-when-politics-and-the-world-cup-collide-video-explainer\" target=\"_blank\">Corruption and fascism: when politics and the World Cup collide \u2013 video explainer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Cup ought to give us all a break from the tensions of global politics, except that\u2019s rarely the case. Amid talk of a return to Cold War, Russia 2018 is just the latest occasion when football\u2019s greatest event has threatened to collide with the combustible world of politicsMarina [&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-47252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47252","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=47252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}