{"id":3103,"date":"2010-07-06T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2010-07-06T11:21:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T16:21:57","slug":"soccer-city-in-infrastructural-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/07\/soccer-city-in-infrastructural-context\/","title":{"rendered":"soccer city, in infrastructural context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3107\" title=\"soccer_city_nasa\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/soccer_city_nasa1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/soccer_city_nasa1.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/soccer_city_nasa1-280x300.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Soccer City stadium, site of Sunday&#8217;s World Cup final, is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_African_stadiums_by_capacity\">largest stadium in Africa<\/a> &#8212; though it seats a bit under ninety thousand spectators in its current configuration, which sacrifices spectator seating in favor of &#8220;reserved seating&#8221; for the press, FIFA officials, and other &#8220;Very Important Persons&#8221; &#8212; but even its bulk is relatively tame in comparison to the slag piles (&#8220;massive dumps of crushed rock discarded after gold extraction&#8221;) that sit just to the west of the stadium.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=44264&amp;src=iotdrss\">NASA Earth Observatory<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer City stadium, site of Sunday&#8217;s World Cup final, is the largest stadium in Africa &#8212; though it seats a bit under ninety thousand spectators in its current configuration, which sacrifices spectator seating in favor of &#8220;reserved seating&#8221; for the press, FIFA officials, and other &#8220;Very Important Persons&#8221; &#8212; but even its bulk is relatively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[223,425,415],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-soccer","tag-south-africa","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3108,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions\/3108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}