{"id":346451,"date":"2026-06-23T02:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346451\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T02:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:19:09","slug":"fort-worth-zoo-celebrates-messi-world-cup-with-argentinian-armadillo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346451\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Zoo celebrates Messi, World Cup with Argentinian armadillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fort Worth Zoo is marking today&#8217;s World Cup match at the Dallas stadium with its own Argentinian star. This three-banded armadillo is native to Argentina. The Fort Worth Zoo named him Bocce, and he seems to have a knack for soccer. The Fort Worth Zoo posted video of Bocce showing off his fancy footwork. Zoo officials call him their very own soccer superstar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fort Worth Zoo is marking today&#8217;s World Cup match at the Dallas stadium with its own Argentinian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[95926,123596,116,118,117,7227,63687],"class_list":["post-346451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-dallas-stadium","tag-fancy-footwork","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-zoo","tag-zoo-officials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}