{"id":154836,"date":"2026-07-19T22:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154836"},"modified":"2026-07-19T22:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:16:15","slug":"spot-the-pol-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154836","title":{"rendered":"Spot the pol!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics<\/p>\n<p>This Washington-based diplomat had two pieces of good news to celebrate on Saturday: a historically impressive romp in a meaningless third-place game and what his government considered a historically meaningful low number of citizens running afoul of American laws during the tournament. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Christian Turner, the United Kingdom&#8217;s new ambassador to Washington, at England&#8217;s semifinal defeat to Argentina in Atlanta on Wednesday. After Sunday&#8217;s third-place victory over France, Turner <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CTurnerFCDO\/status\/2078640499141783887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boasted in a social-media post<\/a> that &#8220;with over 50,000 travelling fans over the tournament, only 23 consular cases&#8221; were handled by the country&#8217;s diplomats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/07\/19\/world-cup-2026\/spot-the-pol-diplomat-consular-cases-01004356\" 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 This Washington-based diplomat had two pieces of good news to celebrate on Saturday: a historically impressive romp in a meaningless third-place game and what his government considered a&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\/154836"}],"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=154836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}