{"id":589748,"date":"2026-07-17T02:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/589748\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T02:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:53:15","slug":"this-photo-of-lionel-messi-and-lamine-yamal-has-gone-viral-again-and-no-its-not-ai-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/589748\/","title":{"rendered":"This photo of Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal has gone viral again (and no, it's not AI) – The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. This photo of Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal has gone viral again (and no, it’s not AI)<\/a>  The Journal<\/li>\n
  2. ‘A true miracle of destiny’ – Messi and Lamine Yamal’s incredible first meeting<\/a>  BBC<\/li>\n
  3. Lionel Messi Bathing a Baby Lamine Yamal<\/a>  Kottke.org<\/li>\n
  4. Lionel Messi will play Lamine Yamal in World Cup final 19 years after viral baby photo<\/a>  CBC<\/li>\n
  5. Why Lionel Messi bathed Lamine Yamal in viral baby photo 19 years ago<\/a>  Yahoo Sports<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This photo of Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal has gone viral again (and no, it’s not AI)  The Journal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[394,19139,43080,18,22,19,17,35043,28673,4335,383,132,178784,35350,249976],"class_list":["post-589748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-argentina","tag-barcelona","tag-destiny","tag-eire","tag-football","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lamine-yamal","tag-lionel-messi","tag-soccer","tag-spain","tag-sports","tag-world-cup-2026","tag-world-cup","tag-written-in-the-stars"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}