{"id":1302,"date":"2014-02-02T18:31:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T18:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2014-02-02T19:02:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T19:02:06","slug":"chamberlains-brace-send-arsenal-to-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/chamberlains-brace-send-arsenal-to-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamberlain&#8217;s Brace Send Arsenal To The Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal have returned to the top of the Barclays Premier League after a 2-0 defeat of Crstal Palace at the Emirates stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>England international Oxlade-Chamberlain scored the brace that put the leaders two points clear of Manchester City, who play Chelsea on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Chamberlain calmly lobbed the ball over Julian Speroni after an excellent pass from Santi Carzola just two minutes into the second half to give the Gunner a deserved lead.<\/p>\n<p>Chamberlain sealed victory for Arsenal when he combined with Olivier Giroud in the 73rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>City will reclaim the top spot if they beat third place Chelsea at the Etiha on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\" itemprop=\"description\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal have returned to the top of the Barclays Premier League after a 2-0 defeat of Crstal Palace at the Emirates stadium on Sunday. England international Oxlade-Chamberlain scored the brace that put the leaders two points clear of Manchester City, who play Chelsea on Monday evening. Chamberlain calmly lobbed the ball over Julian Speroni after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}