{"id":48851,"date":"2018-07-09T15:53:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T13:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/07\/09\/world-cup-2018-buildup-to-the-semi-finals-begins-live\/"},"modified":"2018-07-09T15:53:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T13:53:57","slug":"world-cup-2018-buildup-to-the-semi-finals-begins-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=48851","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2018: buildup to the semi-finals begins \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest news from the Belgium, France, England and Croatia campsWorld Cup power rankings: Brilliant Belgium go top before semisDrop Simon an email | Tweet @Simon_Burnton 2.53pm BST Hugo Lloris has just eulogised Raphael Varane, \u201ca great player and a great person\u201d. Which brings us to this: Related: France&#8217;s defenders have been their real stars at the World Cup 2.52pm BST In occasional England international news, Jack Wilshere has signed for West Ham, agreeing a three-year contract.Our new midfielder has arrived&#8230; #WelcomeJack pic.twitter.com\/kPd7hm4YxZ Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2018\/jul\/09\/world-cup-2018-buildup-to-the-semi-finals-begins-live\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup 2018: buildup to the semi-finals begins \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest news from the Belgium, France, England and Croatia campsWorld Cup power rankings: Brilliant Belgium go top before semisDrop Simon an email | Tweet @Simon_Burnton 2.53pm BST Hugo Lloris has just eulogised Raphael Varane, \u201ca great player and a great person\u201d. Which brings us to this: Related: France&#8217;s defenders have [&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-48851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48851","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=48851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}