{"id":3557,"date":"2010-04-16T23:52:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T12:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2010-06-14T06:29:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T19:29:31","slug":"world-cup-as-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/04\/16\/world-cup-as-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup as Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what I miss &#8211; the passion!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The World Cup is a very important cultural event, a party and has a great educational interest,&#8221; said Alberto Sileoni, the country&#8217;s minister of education.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Watching a match at school takes up two hours of class time. But if students stay at home that&#8217;s six hours at least.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The justification for watching World Cup soccer:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>school and college students in Argentina could be allowed to watch World Cup matches live while in the classroom in a measure aimed at cutting out truancy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Surely, every student&#8217;s kind of Education Minister? &#8211; See <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100410\/od_afp\/fblwc2010argoffbeat_20100410223642\">Today&#8217;s lesson in Argentina? Watching the World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding our cultural context is a key to engaging our culture with the Good News of God\u2019s love in Jesus Christ. This makes for effective mission. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.org.au\/_resources\/What-is-Contextualisation\/a5eb9a9c-d1be-2a83-96ba-4b0a3ea9981a?sessid=60c5f82a5fb4e401489a9a8eda7f8d38\">What is Contextualisation?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what I miss &#8211; the passion! &#8220;The World Cup is a very important cultural event, a party and has a great educational interest,&#8221; said Alberto Sileoni, the country&#8217;s minister of education. &#8220;Watching a match at school takes up &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/04\/16\/world-cup-as-culture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3586,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions\/3586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}