{"id":1048,"date":"2006-06-10T14:40:43","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T21:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2006-06-10T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2006-06-10T21:40:43","slug":"world-cup-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/10\/world-cup-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

Without a TV at my disposal, if I want to watch any of the World Cup games online, apparently there are<\/a> ways<\/a> to get it to work. But alas, after an hour of muddling through them, I couldn’t get it. Apparently the BBC is showing some of the games online, but you have to have a British ISP in order for it to work — in other words that old proxy trick won’t work anymore. <\/p>\n

I tried checking Australia’s SBS<\/a> and Germany’s Deutsche Welle<\/a> and France’s RFI<\/a> to see if I could find any online video feeds, or even an audio feed but nothing. RFI *might* have some online audio feeds, particularly for the African games. So after scouring the Internets for live World Cup media, I’m left with the tried and true solution : BitTorrent. I’m downloading today’s England match and yesterday’s German match as I type. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Without a TV at my disposal, if I want to watch any of the World Cup games online, apparently there are ways to get it to work. But alas, after an hour of muddling through them, I couldn’t get it. Apparently the BBC is showing some of the games online, but you have to have a British ISP in order for it to work — in other words that old proxy trick won’t work anymore. I tried checking Australia’s SBS…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-foreign-affairs","category-i-love-the-internet","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-gU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}