{"id":30244,"date":"2019-01-23T09:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T09:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30244"},"modified":"2019-01-23T09:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T09:22:27","slug":"boateng-to-barca-five-of-the-strangest-january-transfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30244","title":{"rendered":"Boateng to Barca?! Five of the strangest January transfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Kevin-Prince Boateng signing for Barcelona in the January transfer window caught many people by surprise.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">During a long season, January is the only opportunity clubs &#8212; whether they are fighting for honors or battling relegation &#8212; have to strengthen their squads.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">However, historically the January window has proved a tricky time to buy players that go on ad make an impact.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Kevin-Prince Boateng signing for Barcelona in the January transfer window caught many people by surprise.During a long season, January is the only opportunity clubs &#8212; whether they are fighting for honors or battling relegation &#8212; have to strengthen their squads.However, historically the January window has proved a tricky time to buy players that go on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}