{"id":693108,"date":"2010-03-12T09:57:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T13:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.wombles.org.uk:\/\/a080ab6ec8f57ebeb0cfdf2350022b44"},"modified":"2010-03-12T09:57:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T13:57:31","slug":"2010-south-africa-world-cup-invictus-in-reverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/693108","title":{"rendered":"2010 South Africa World Cup: Invictus in reverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from mw, 10 March 2010: &#8220;You see it the moment you walk off the plane: a mammoth soccer ball hanging from the ceiling of Johannesburg International Airport festooned with yellow banners that read, &#8220;2010 Let&#8217;s Go! WORLD CUP!&#8221; If you swivel your head, you see that every sponsor has joined the party &#8211; Coca Cola, Anheuser-Busch &#8211; all branded with the FIFA seal. It&#8217;s when your head dips down that you see another, less sponsored, universe. Even inside this gleaming state-of-the-art airport, men ranging in age from 16-60 ask if they can shine your shoes, carry your bags, or even walk you to a cab. It&#8217;s the informal economy fighting for breathing room amidst the smothering sponsorship&#8230;&#8221;&nbsp;<span class='read-more'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wombles.org.uk\/article2010035910.php\">more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from mw, 10 March 2010: &#8220;You see it the moment you walk off the plane: a mammoth soccer ball hanging from the ceiling of Johannesburg International Airport festooned with yellow banners that read, &#8220;2010 Let&#8217;s Go! WORLD CUP!&#8221; If you swivel your head, you see that every sponsor has joined the party &#8211; Coca Cola, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Uja","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}