{"id":88,"date":"2018-06-18T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.everestthemes.com\/viable\/demo\/sports\/?p=88"},"modified":"2018-11-14T07:22:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T07:22:09","slug":"five-reasons-to-be-optimistic-about-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.themebeez.com\/cream-blog-pro-sports\/2018\/06\/18\/five-reasons-to-be-optimistic-about-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Five reasons to be optimistic about England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">When Denmark&#8217;s Christian Eriksen turned to Tottenham team-mate and England full-back Kieran Trippier after the final game of the season and said, &#8220;Good luck at the World Cup, see you in the semis,&#8221; he could have been accused of being a touch optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>Reaching the last four in Russia seems a stretch for Gareth Southgate&#8217;s young squad, who average fewer than 20 caps per player and lack the star status of the fabled &#8216;golden generation&#8217;, which included Paul Scholes, David Beckham, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard.<\/p>\n<p>This time, England&#8217;s midfield might comprise Jordan Henderson and Eric Dier.<\/p>\n<p>But while the players may lack experience and pedigree, it is also a squad which represents a new-look England, with added hope for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Shorn of scars from previous tournaments, with a clear philosophy of how to play and with little expectation, Southgate has backed his players, saying he wants them to be &#8220;fearless&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Denmark&#8217;s Christian Eriksen turned to Tottenham team-mate and England full-back Kieran Trippier after the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.themebeez.com\/cream-blog-pro-sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.themebeez.com\/cream-blog-pro-sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.themebeez.com\/cream-blog-pro-sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.themebeez.com\/cream-blog-pro-sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.themebeez.com\/cream-blog-pro-sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.themebeez.com\/cream-blog-pro-sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/demo.themebeez.com\/cream-blog-pro-sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.themebeez.com\/cream-blog-pro-sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.themebeez.com\/cream-blog-pro-sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.themebeez.com\/cream-blog-pro-sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.themebeez.com\/cream-blog-pro-sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}