{"id":317381,"date":"2026-06-15T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=317381"},"modified":"2026-06-14T19:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:02:03","slug":"the-beautiful-game-in-an-ugly-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/06\/the-beautiful-game-in-an-ugly-country\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beautiful Game in an Ugly Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-heading\">The United States should never host the World Cup because it is a country built on racism, repression, and endless war.\u00a0FIFA and its leaders ignored international demands to host the matches elsewhere and now face calls for a boycott of the World Cup and of the U.S.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blackagendareport.com\/beautiful-game-cant-hide-ugly\" >Black Agenda Report<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_317382\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/beautiful-game-ugly-country-food.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-317382\" class=\"size-full wp-image-317382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/beautiful-game-ugly-country-food.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/beautiful-game-ugly-country-food.webp 640w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/beautiful-game-ugly-country-food-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-317382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright &#8211; Black Agenda Report<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States should never host the World Cup because it is a country built on racism, repression, and endless war.\u00a0FIFA and its leaders ignored international demands to host the matches elsewhere and now face calls for a boycott of the World Cup and of the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":317382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[550,2745,103,3099,1693,1146,70],"class_list":["post-317381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-for-thought","tag-corruption","tag-fifa","tag-racism","tag-soccer","tag-soccer-world-cup","tag-sports","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317383,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317381\/revisions\/317383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}