{"id":192495,"date":"2010-01-17T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5450204"},"modified":"2010-01-17T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T21:00:00","slug":"in-the-u-k-steve-jobs-is-a-footballer-steve-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/192495","title":{"rendered":"In the U.K., Steve Jobs Is a Footballer [Steve Jobs]"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a soccer player living in a country slightly apathetic to the sport, I appreciate any mention of it that I can get. Even so, the geek in me wept a little at hearing this news out of the U.K.:<\/p>\n

Steve Jobs<\/a>: Soccer player?! A full 20% thought so, while 10% thought he was a turtleneck-wearing trade union leader. As for Bill Gates<\/a>, he was one of the Great Train Robbers of the 1960s, according to 10% of survey respondents. There’s video too, if your inner geek can handle it (although I swear some of these blokes don’t have British accents…):<\/p>\n

<\/embed><\/object>Twitter didn’t fare much better (not that I really give a hoot about Twitter). What’s going on in the U.K.? [CNET<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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As a soccer player living in a country slightly apathetic to the sport, I appreciate any mention of it that I can get. Even so, the geek in me wept a little at hearing this news out of the U.K.: Steve Jobs: Soccer player?! A full 20% thought so, while 10% thought he was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}