{"id":387,"date":"2005-10-10T11:11:43","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T08:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/?p=387"},"modified":"2012-10-03T11:12:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T08:12:50","slug":"painting-the-town-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/2005\/10\/10\/painting-the-town-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting the town green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panathinaikos fans are preparing to dress in green and cheer their team on in the vital game against Spanish powerhouse Barcelona in the group round of the European Championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am going to be there at 8 p.m. to make sure that I have the best view,&#8221; said Konstandinos Sifakis, a devoted Panathinaikos fan. &#8220;No way am I going to lose a chance seeing them play against Barcelona, and win too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ticket booths opened on Sunday October 9, and in two days fans snatched up 62,000 of the 65,000 available tickets. &#8220;I went Tuesday afternoon to buy my tickets and it was crazy,&#8221; said Achileas Papadopoulos, a Deree student who waited three hours in line. &#8220;I mean crowds of people impatient to get their ticket first so they don&#8217;t lose their chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some Panathinaikos fans believe that Barcelona will go home victorious. &#8221; Barcelona is the best European team,&#8221; said Papadopoulos, &#8220;Our hopes to win this game are kind of hopeless. Either way though, I wish them good luck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To beat Barcelona, Panathinaikos must play their best defense; after all, scoring-legend Ronaldhinio, is Barcelona&#8217;s key to victory.<\/p>\n<p>The game is on Tuesday, October 18 at the Olympic Stadium and will be broadcasted on Mega channel at 9:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panathinaikos fans are preparing to dress in green and cheer their team on in the vital game against Spanish powerhouse Barcelona in the group round of the European Championship. &#8220;I am going to be there at 8 p.m. to make sure that I have the best view,&#8221; said Konstandinos Sifakis, a devoted Panathinaikos fan. &#8220;No [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}