{"id":2302,"date":"2010-08-02T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midastouch.goldgenie.com\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2010-08-02T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T08:00:27","slug":"the-great-gold-medal-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/the-great-gold-medal-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Gold Medal Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingznice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2303\" title=\"DSC_4203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_4203-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"614\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\">\n<p>Exactly a month ago today the Ghana Black Stars were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/10537133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">robbed<\/a> of their chance to become one of the last four teams in the 2010 World cup finals. I was of course not bitter about the events&#8230;BUT on the 6<sup>th<\/sup> of July justice was done when Holland booted out Uruguay who had cheated their way to the semi finals with that infamous last minute hand ball during their game with Ghana!<\/p>\n<p><strong>FACT: Ghana was the last African Team standing in the Fifa 2010 World Cup! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In memory of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/10508969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghana\u2019s great achievement<\/a>, All Thingz Nice has limited edition World Cup t-shirts and hooded jumpers, the perfect reminder of Ghana\u2019s success in this year\u2019s World cup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingznice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2306\" title=\"DSC_4135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_4135-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"614\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingznice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2307\" title=\"DSC_4222\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_4222-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"614\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingznice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2308\" title=\"DSC_4037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_4037-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingznice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2309\" title=\"DSC_4069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_4069-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"614\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingznice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2310\" title=\"DSC_4169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_4169-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\">\n<ul>\n<li>T-shirts are just \u00a322.50, hooded jumpers are \u00a347.50!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Add Goldgenie as the subject of the email and receive a 25% discount on all XL and XXL sized World Cup garments!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Free postage and package to all UK addresses only!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>To request your exclusive World Cup hooded jumper or t-shirt email: info@allthingznice.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\">The Competition!!!!\u00a0 For your chance to win one of five keepsake World Cup 2010 hooded jumpers, all you have to do is answer the question below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\"><em>In the final minutes of extra time, which player missed a crucial penalty during the Ghana V Uruguay game on the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> of July? Was it:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A) Stephen Appiah\u00a0 B) Sebastian Abreu C) Asamoah Gyan D)Dominic Adiyiah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Send your answer and indicate your size (S, M, L, XL or XXL) to <a href=\"mailto:info@allthingznice.com\">info@allthingznice.com<\/a> before midnight on the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> of September 2010 for your chance to win! <strong>(<em>Entrants must have a UK address &amp; discounts apply to World Cup merchandise only)<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly a month ago today the Ghana Black Stars were robbed of their chance to become one of the last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,11,14,17,44],"tags":[124,133,339,519,560,794],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-thingz-nice","category-bespoke","category-competition","category-cool-stuff","category-fashion","category-style","tag-africa","tag-all-thingz-nice","tag-competition","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-ghana","tag-goldgenie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}