{"id":90892,"date":"2026-06-28T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/how-turbulent-global-politics-are-rattling-the-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:44:15","slug":"how-turbulent-global-politics-are-rattling-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/how-turbulent-global-politics-are-rattling-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"How turbulent global politics are rattling the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first time in World Cup history that a host nation is actively at war with a country <!--more--> participant. GPS and The Lead tackle the geopolitical cloud looming over the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 The geopolitical cloud hanging over the World Cup<br \/>\n2:44 The novelty of politics invading sports<br \/>\n6:13 A majority Iranian American recreational soccer team on their view of Iran&#8217;s national team<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#WorldCup #Iran #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first time in World Cup history that a host nation is actively at war with a country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}