{"id":100262,"date":"2015-09-21T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T10:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/100262\/rugby-world-cup-a-long-and-proud-history\/"},"modified":"2019-09-18T02:53:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T00:53:43","slug":"rugby-world-cup-a-long-and-proud-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/09\/21\/rugby-world-cup-a-long-and-proud-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby World Cup: A long and proud history"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>David Rush, South Coast Herald.<\/h6>\n<p>THERE have been seven <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rugby_World_Cup\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby World Cups<\/a> to date.<\/p>\n<p>Well, five if you are South African. Who knows what might have been at the 1987 and 1991 tournaments.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>New Zealand won the first one beating France \u2026 but it seems it wasn\u2019t taken too seriously, with stories about players having a few beers the night before the final.<\/p>\n<p>However, it did kick-start what is now a massive event.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>By 1991 there was a lot more interest. Australia defeated England.<\/p>\n<p>1995 needs no introduction. The fairytale Springbok win over the All Blacks in extra time. Thank you Joel Stransky.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/t7ls7rYHSOM' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>In 1999 Australia beat France in a rather boring final.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003 Jonny Wilkinson drop-goaled and England finally got one over Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The Boks were back in 2007, beating England.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011 New Zealand finally won the trophy again, edging out nemesis France.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='fb25f533af20003e98a415c082e26c19'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tournament has come a long way from its humble beginnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5696,"featured_media":100287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":".","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8428,3],"tags":[7314,8519,8535,6956,1122,7566,8510,1767],"class_list":["post-100262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby-world-cup","category-sports-news","tag-australia","tag-england","tag-france","tag-new-zealand","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-world-cup","tag-rwc","tag-springboks"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Rugby World Cup"},"tag_labels":["Australia","england","France","New Zealand","rugby","Rugby World Cup","RWC","springboks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}