{"id":8547,"date":"2026-06-28T01:55:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2026-06-28T02:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:35:15","slug":"world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=8547","title":{"rendered":"WORLD CUP FEVER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/messi-1-of-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/messi-1-of-1-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/messi-1-of-1-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/messi-1-of-1-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/messi-1-of-1-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/messi-1-of-1-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/messi-1-of-1-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/messi-1-of-1-scaled.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lionel Messi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Soccer fan, professor Gad Saad, says that Lionel Messi might just be proof of the existence of God. <\/strong> <strong>Blasphemy you say!! Maybe yes, maybe no.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>But the divine has a habit of hovering over the fate of the Argentinian teams. 40 years ago this week, Diego Maradona punched in the infamous &#8220;Hand of God Goal&#8221; in the match that saw Argentina defeat England. With God on your side, how can you lose??<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I was fortunate to capture this image of the world&#8217;s best footballer way down under in Ushuaia, Argentina<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi Soccer fan, professor Gad Saad, says that Lionel Messi might just be proof of the existence of God. Blasphemy you say!! Maybe yes, maybe no. But the divine has a habit of hovering over the fate of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=8547\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8547"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8557,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions\/8557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}