{"id":23859,"date":"2017-01-30T12:45:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T20:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23859"},"modified":"2017-01-30T12:45:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T20:45:05","slug":"first-football-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/first-football-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Football Fan&#8217;s First Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/levstadum.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>One of the most watched events in the world is Sunday&#8217;s Super Bowl Game between the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons in Houston. Santa Clara (pictured) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-clara-super-bowl.html\">hosted the game in 2016<\/a> and San Diego has hosted three Super Bowls, but nobody knows if there will be any more such spectacles there since the San Diego Chargers have left to become the Los Angeles Chargers.<\/p>\n<p>All the media hoopla made me recall attending a Charger contest at old San Diego Stadium, where I happened to sit next to a woman from Iceland, who was attending her very first game.\u00a0She seemed confused by what was happening on the field, watching gigantic monsters, dressed in\u00a0short pants, jumping up and down on the gridiron.\u00a0When she spotted two players hugging&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/sports\/football-fan.html\"> read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald One of the most watched events in the world is Sunday&#8217;s Super Bowl Game between the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons in Houston. Santa Clara (pictured) hosted the game in 2016 and San Diego has hosted three Super Bowls, but nobody knows if there will be any more such spectacles there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23859"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}