{"id":7080,"date":"2012-11-30T11:03:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T18:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=7080"},"modified":"2012-11-30T11:30:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T18:30:37","slug":"an-american-werewolf-in-wembley-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/an-american-werewolf-in-wembley-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"An American Werewolf in Wembley Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 2012<\/p>\n

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Sometimes it\u2019s nice to see ourselves as others see us. Our man in London takes us through the looking glass.<\/h3>\n
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It\u2019s already dark and drizzly at ten to five as I wait in the queue leading into Wembley Stadium\u2019s L-Block. The gate is more tightly controlled than the safeguards around Boston\u2019s Federal Reserve Bank. Brushed stainless steel, electronically controlled security doors allow me to pass through a metal detector and what seems like watertight doors on a ship. Getting into Wembley entails more scrutiny than boarding the Boeing to Heathrow.<\/p>\n

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