This dragon was laughing at the England Iceland game. They often talk about football catching a nation’s mood, but they usually mean it in a positive sense. But there could be no closer match between the national mood and the England performance last night. I gave up supporting England long ago, it’s always a joyless affair, so couldn’t even rise to any indignation. It was just meh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This dragon was laughing at the England Iceland game. They often talk about football catching a nation’s mood, but they usually mean it in a positive sense. But there could be no closer match between the national mood and the England performance last night. I gave up supporting England long ago, it’s always a joyless … Continue reading Snigger<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3972,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions\/3972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}