{"id":76126,"date":"2007-05-01T19:05:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T10:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=28"},"modified":"2007-05-01T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T10:05:09","slug":"footy-season-kicked-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/footy-season-kicked-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Footy season kicked off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erm&#8230;now that I&#8217;ve actually checked the facts (actually saw a Yamaga poster in a restaurant last night) am rather abashed to have to tell gentle readers that this was the 4th match of the mighty Yamaga&#8217;s season.<br \/>\nNagano now sit atop the league as the sole unbeaten team, ending Yamaga&#8217;s   unblemished start. I blame the rather useless team website for non-kanji heads like me!<br \/>\nvisit http:\/\/alwin.org\/modules\/tinycontent\/index.php?id=22 for the current league table.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/footy-season-kicked-off\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/footy-season-kicked-off\/\" data-text=\"Footy season kicked off\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erm&#8230;now that I&#8217;ve actually checked the facts (actually saw a Yamaga poster in a restaurant last night) am rather abashed to have to tell gentle readers that this was the 4th match of the mighty Yamaga&#8217;s season. 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