{"id":154829,"date":"2026-07-19T20:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154829"},"modified":"2026-07-19T20:16:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:16:42","slug":"the-world-cup-final-came-to-town-the-town-grew-8-times-larger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154829","title":{"rendered":"The World Cup final came to town. The town grew 8 times larger."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics<\/p>\n<p>Forget Zohran Mamdani. The local elected official who really rules MetLife Stadium today is Jeffrey Lahullier, whose 10,000-person town sees its population swell by more than 800 percent whenever there\u2019s an event at the stadium complex in the middle of his turf, writes POLITICO&#8217;s Will McCarthy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/18\/world-cup-small-city-mayors-stadiums-east-rutherford-01004040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Will&#8217;s story \u201cThe World Cup came to town. The town grew eight times larger\u201d here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/07\/19\/world-cup-2026\/who-rules-east-rutherford-mayor-jeffrey-lahullier-01004348\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>Politics, World Cup, Hide from HP<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics Forget Zohran Mamdani. The local elected official who really rules MetLife Stadium today is Jeffrey Lahullier, whose 10,000-person town sees its population swell by more than 800 percent&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154829"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}