{"id":302533,"date":"2022-11-14T03:11:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T03:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=302533"},"modified":"2022-11-14T04:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T04:02:31","slug":"soccer-fever-sweeping-st-louis-ahead-of-world-cup-first-game-at-citypark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/soccer-fever-sweeping-st-louis-ahead-of-world-cup-first-game-at-citypark","title":{"rendered":"Soccer fever sweeping St. Louis ahead of World Cup, first game at CITYPARK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS &#8211; Soccer mania is all around St. Louis right now as the city prepares for the first game at CITYPARK this week. &#8220;Everybody is going crazy for St. Louis CITY. CITY2 did amazing; they went to the playoffs and went to the final game, and that&#8217;s pretty much unheard of. So, I think everybody is just going crazy for the whole thing,&#8221; said Billy Holley, bartender at Amsterdam Tavern on Morgan Ford Road. Over at Amsterdam Tavern, they are expecting big crowds of people watching the FIFA World Cup, which starts on Sunday, Nov. 19 . Trending: Missouri personal property tax bills on the way, likely higher than years past &#8220;St. Louis is by far like the biggest soccer city in the nation, so us getting a team and then whenever the World Cup comes on,&#8221; said Dave Stevens, Amsterdam Tavern. &#8220;There is a reason why this place gets so packed at 6 a.m. on a Saturday. St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer mania is all around St. Louis right now as the city prepares for the first game at CITYPARK this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-soccer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}