{"id":965123,"date":"2024-07-10T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965123"},"modified":"2024-07-10T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T14:00:02","slug":"three-meerkats-predict-three-lions-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/three-meerkats-predict-three-lions-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Three meerkats predict Three Lions victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many, predicting the result of Wednesday&#8217;s Euro 2024 semi-final between England and the Netherlands is a challenging task.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams have endured a rocky route to the last four with neither side hitting top form at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s no surprise then that a trio of meerkats at London Zoo also struggled to decide who would come out on top after being called on to predict the outcome of the match.<\/p>\n<p>The three resident slender-tailed meerkats, named Dracula, Penelope and Frank, were summoned to make their best guess for the showdown in Dortmund, picking between two buckets adorned with a Netherlands flag and an England one.<\/p>\n<p>Dracula, so named after one atypically long fang, got off to a fast start, initially showing interest in the Netherlands flag, before switching flanks and choosing the England one instead.<\/p>\n<p>Underneath both buckets was the favourite food of the meerkats &#8211; a small pile of insects.<\/p>\n<p>England fans will be hoping their team can also show their teeth against the Netherlands, as they look to make history by advancing to a final in a big tournament for the first time outside England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three meerkats predict Three Lions victory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":965124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}