{"id":4452,"date":"2010-06-27T09:22:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=4452"},"modified":"2010-06-28T23:27:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T03:27:53","slug":"corfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2010\/06\/27\/corfing\/","title":{"rendered":"CORFing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder how many Americans became soccer fans after the upset tie with England? It seemed like the furor over the Slovenia tie became more conversational than I expected. After the amazing win over Algeria, even more people wanted to talk about the World Cup. Well, the loss to Ghana didn&#8217;t sustain the conversation. May\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/human\/instant-soccer-fan-why.html\">Instant Soccer Fan? Why?<\/a> can explain it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CORFing stands for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.units.muohio.edu\/psybersite\/fans\/bc.shtml\">Cutting Off of Reflective Failure<\/a>, and it basically means that people, like my friends, attach to a team when they are winning and dissociate from teams when they are losing. Visek says if you ask a soccer fan how the U.S. soccer team did after a win, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re likely to hear a &#8220;we won&#8221; response. But, if the U.S. team loses their next match, most people will subconsciously dissociate from the team with a &#8220;they lost&#8221; response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, we did lose the game. I hope we won more interest in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder how many Americans became soccer fans after the upset tie with England? It seemed like the furor over the Slovenia tie became more conversational than I expected. After the amazing win over Algeria, even more people wanted to talk about the World Cup. Well, the loss to Ghana didn&#8217;t sustain the conversation. May\u00c2\u00a0Instant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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":[38],"tags":[252,888,1235,1236,889],"class_list":["post-4452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-america","tag-soccer","tag-soccer-team","tag-united-states-mens-national-soccer-team","tag-world-cup"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1rUBW-corfing","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}