{"id":2490,"date":"2008-08-20T09:40:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T09:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaninka.net\/stefan\/2008\/08\/20\/plucky-underdogs\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T09:40:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T09:40:27","slug":"plucky-underdogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/2008\/08\/20\/plucky-underdogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Plucky underdogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/2008\/aug\/20\/olympics20082\">Guardian-bloggi\u00f0 fr\u00e1 \u00d3L <\/a>er stundum sni\u00f0ugt:<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.19am: Plucky underdog corner.<\/strong> Tired of exulting in Britain&#8217;s successes? Feeling the burden of superpowerdom? Yearning for the good old days of taking on the big boys?<\/p>\n<p>Feast your eyes on this: Poland (population: 40,000,000) have lost to Iceland (population: mostly puffins) in the handball.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;It was great, I still cannot believe it. We&#8217;re such a small country and we won against a 40-million-people country. Now there&#8217;s going to be a handball boom in Iceland,&#8220; added the sadly misguided Alexander Peterssen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;We get about 500 spectators per game,&#8220; Iceland right back Olafur Stefansson added. &#8222;It&#8217;s understandable, sometimes there&#8217;s bad weather and you don&#8217;t want to go driving 20 minutes through the snow when you can watch TV instead.&#8220;<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nSometimes<\/em> there&#8217;s bad weather?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian-bloggi\u00f0 fr\u00e1 \u00d3L er stundum sni\u00f0ugt: 10.19am: Plucky underdog corner. Tired of exulting in Britain&#8217;s successes? Feeling the burden of superpowerdom? Yearning for the good old days of taking on the big boys? Feast your eyes on this: Poland (population: 40,000,000) have lost to Iceland (population: mostly puffins) in the handball. &#8222;It was great, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/2008\/08\/20\/plucky-underdogs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Halda \u00e1fram a\u00f0 lesa: <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plucky underdogs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}