{"id":218015,"date":"2026-06-15T19:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/meet-merlin-the-duck-that-became-the-world-cups-viral-mascot\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T19:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:42:10","slug":"meet-merlin-the-duck-that-became-the-world-cups-viral-mascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/meet-merlin-the-duck-that-became-the-world-cups-viral-mascot\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Merlin: The duck that became the World Cup&#8217;s viral mascot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A duck named Merlin has become an unlikely World Cup sensation after videos of him wearing a Mexico jersey and joining celebrations in Mexico City spread across social media. <\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/video\/2026\/06\/15\/meet-merlin-the-duck-that-became-the-world-cups-viral-mascot\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A duck named Merlin has become an unlikely World Cup sensation after videos of him wearing a Mexico jersey and joining celebrations in Mexico City spread across social media. Read more at Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":217834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}