{"id":1075,"date":"2006-05-19T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2006-05-19T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T16:18:00","slug":"one-game-changes-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/one-game-changes-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"One Game Changes Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/1600\/99898475_25293e0129.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/320\/99898475_25293e0129.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\" align: center;>Photo from: <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/miedo\/99898475\/\">miedo<\/A><\/span><br \/>\nAccording to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.u2.com\/news\/index.php?mode=full&#038;news_id=1941\">U2.com<\/A>, U2 will be a part of a major initiative by ESPN and ABC in America to increase awareness and interest in the 2006 World Cup.<br \/>\n&#8220;It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a simple thing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c just a ball and a goal,&#8221; explains Bono. &#8220;Every four years in June,&#8221; adds Edge. &#8220;Sick days increase by 300 percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The band\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s songs, live performance and voiceovers are all part of the &#8220;One Game Changes Everything&#8221; campaign while City of Blinding Lights is to become ESPN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s official World Cup Song.<br \/>\n&#8220;Our goal is to make World Cup soccer meaningful and relevant to American sports fans,&#8221; said Katie Lacey at ESPN. &#8220;We show the passion that fans around the world have through compelling stories that are set to the music of U2.&#8221;<br \/>\nAs Bono puts it in one of the spots, &#8220;If history means anything, the world<br \/>\nas we know it, is about to change!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>U2.com has four of the ads available for viewing. They&#8217;re <em>really<\/em> good.<br \/>\n&#8220;Once every four years that simple thing drastically changes the world. It closes the schools, it closes the shops, it stops a war. A simple ball fuels the passion and pride of nations&#8230; It achieves more than the politicians ever could.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo from: miedo According to U2.com, U2 will be a part of a major initiative by ESPN and ABC in America to increase awareness and interest in the 2006 World Cup. &#8220;It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a simple thing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c just a ball and a goal,&#8221; explains Bono. &#8220;Every four years in June,&#8221; adds Edge. &#8220;Sick days increase by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/one-game-changes-everything\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Game Changes Everything<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-hl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}