{"id":1447,"date":"2014-02-06T01:05:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T01:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2014-02-06T01:05:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T01:05:06","slug":"no-goal-gift-for-birthday-boy-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/no-goal-gift-for-birthday-boy-ronaldo\/","title":{"rendered":"No Goal Gift For Birthday Boy Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid took a huge step towards booking their place in the Copa del Rey final by beating city rivals Atletico Madrid 3-0 at the Bernabeu.<\/p>\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo would not score on his 29th birthday, while Gareth Bale was absent from the squad for unspecified reasons, but an own-goal from Emiliano Insua and second-half efforts from Jese and Angel Di Maria gave Atletico a mountain to climb in next week&#8217;s reverse at the Vicente Calderon.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico had won twice in a row in north Madrid to sorely irritate their more successful neighbours, and Carlo Ancelotti&#8217;s men used Wednesday night&#8217;s first-leg semi-final to convincingly reassert their authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid took a huge step towards booking their place in the Copa del Rey final by beating city rivals Atletico Madrid 3-0 at the Bernabeu. Cristiano Ronaldo would not score on his 29th birthday, while Gareth Bale was absent from the squad for unspecified reasons, but an own-goal from Emiliano Insua and second-half efforts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85,60],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447"}],"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=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}