{"id":529713,"date":"2010-04-16T10:06:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T14:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=100821"},"modified":"2010-04-16T10:06:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T14:06:05","slug":"shakira-freshlyground-%e2%80%9ctime-for-africa%e2%80%9d-world-cup-anthem-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529713","title":{"rendered":"Shakira &amp; Freshlyground \u201cTime For Africa\u201d World Cup Anthem 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shakira and South African band Freshlyground&#8217;s song &#8220;Time for Africa,&#8221; has been selected as the official World Cup anthem.<\/p>\n<p>The track &#8212; which will provide the soundtrack to soccer&#8217;s Super Bowl &#8212; will be released to radio stations across the world next week and will be available for download beginning April 26. The Colombian pop queen and the Capetown band will perform the song at the World Cup kickoff concert in Soweto on June 10, at the tournament\u2019s opening ceremony, and during the July 11 finals.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Shakira-Haitian-School.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shakira-Haitian-School\" width=\"422\" height=\"610\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-100180\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakira and South African band Freshlyground&#8217;s song &#8220;Time for Africa,&#8221; has been selected as the official World Cup anthem. The track &#8212; which will provide the soundtrack to soccer&#8217;s Super Bowl &#8212; will be released to radio stations across the world next week and will be available for download beginning April 26. The Colombian pop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529713","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\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}