{"id":1169,"date":"2006-06-18T09:16:08","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T13:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2006-06-18T09:26:19","modified_gmt":"2006-06-18T13:26:19","slug":"a-game-we-may-not-have-wanted-america-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/06\/18\/a-game-we-may-not-have-wanted-america-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"A Game We May Not Have Wanted America To Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And it did end in a tie, if you don&#8217;t know what im talking about you are clearly not a soccer fan. However, you may not be,  but everyone here is. Last night was the America-Italy game, and we became a bit nervous as the Americans spent most of the time beating up on the italians. It wasn&#8217;t as if they were playing better soccer, they were just playing a bit rougher. Vincent didn&#8217;t want to make us uncomfortable but it was clear that he did not even think America should be playing. We went back to the hotel a bit early for the fear that we might not make it home if the US were to win. Lol, it was supposed to be a gift that the Italians were going to get to play America, and as it turned out it was a bittersweet gift. At least it was a tie is all i know.<\/p>\n<p>On to other things,<\/p>\n<p>Today is our last in Naples, and we are not to sad about that. It is not what we would call the most beautiful city in the world, but it does have its charm and some very very good food. Not only that but it is nice not having to spend a fortune to go out and eat. It is literally about half the price of Venice, for everything. Which is kind of amazing. A meal that is ten euro here, would easily be twenty or more in Venice. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m no longer having to look for an ATM every five mins and i bet my parents are resting a bit easier now knowing this.<\/p>\n<p>Today we are going to get some food, then book our ticket back to Venice so that we will be sure to have a seat after Amalfi. Then we will look into the train for tomorrow which should only be an hour ride. Then what is said to be a beautiful bus ride along the coast until we make it to Amalfi. <\/p>\n<p>All in all the trip is going very well so far, and yes mom, we are not fighting as you suggested. Lol, although when it is only the two of us who really speak all that much English fighting would mean very little English and I don&#8217;t think that is something either of us would handle all that well.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, i bet you guys are getting a little sick of all our posting, but it is one of the more enjoyable things to do here in Naples, aside from looking at all the cool stuff people are trying to sell on the street&#8230; cool and what i would suspect as stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and debbie is feeling a little unloved, considering how much she has been hearing from her parents. Of course they are in Asheville with no internet connection, but she thought they should be home by now. If anyone has anything relevant to say on the subject I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure she would appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>Love always<\/p>\n<p>matt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it did end in a tie, if you don&#8217;t know what im talking about you are clearly not a soccer fan. However, you may not be, but everyone here is. Last night was the America-Italy game, and we became &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/06\/18\/a-game-we-may-not-have-wanted-america-to-win\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}