{"id":111168,"date":"2026-06-03T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/03\/why-some-of-americas-most-sports-crazed-cities-said-no-to-the-world-cup-on-purpose-fortune\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:36:00","slug":"why-some-of-americas-most-sports-crazed-cities-said-no-to-the-world-cup-on-purpose-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/03\/why-some-of-americas-most-sports-crazed-cities-said-no-to-the-world-cup-on-purpose-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Why some of America&#8217;s most sports-crazed cities said no to the World Cup on purpose &#8211; Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijwFBVV95cUxNeHdXZ3lid0VTVWJFQ1JFOVpWZ3BDay1XUkhjbmFna2VJbU1DSWlZbV9JTkRuZEdueVlJUFQyY2JXaXdqMUVzd0JTZG9pZDJobkZlUmxtOGFGQTEtZG5KNnpzc0gwQnR6Vm00WWt2ck1fa082OHl5ZDl0OU1kR3BZeHpYZXBEM193VjVQTWVCNA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Why some of America&#8217;s most sports-crazed cities said no to the World Cup on purpose<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Fortune<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why some of America&#8217;s most sports-crazed cities said no to the World Cup on purpose&nbsp;&nbsp;Fortune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}