{"id":1075665,"date":"2023-06-09T05:50:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T05:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=285512"},"modified":"2023-06-09T05:50:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T05:50:39","slug":"brawling-on-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/09\/brawling-on-the-brink\/","title":{"rendered":"Brawling on the Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What excited Berliners most in May? Surely soccer! But the reaction was split between \u201cWessies\u201d and \u201cOssies\u201d! When a second-to-last-minute goal pushed West Berlin\u2019s legendary \u201cHertha\u201d team (founded 1892) out of the \u201ctop 18\u201d league and down into the second league, with less TV-time, less endorsements, tickets and profits, two-thirds of Berlin groaned. Then East  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/09\/brawling-on-the-brink\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/09\/brawling-on-the-brink\/\">Brawling on the Brink<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/09\/brawling-on-the-brink\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What excited Berliners most in May? Surely soccer! But the reaction was split between \u201cWessies\u201d and \u201cOssies\u201d! When a second-to-last-minute goal pushed West Berlin\u2019s legendary \u201cHertha\u201d team (founded 1892) out of the \u201ctop 18\u201d league and down into the sec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076365,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075665\/revisions\/1076365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}