{"id":123210,"date":"2016-03-15T11:04:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T09:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/123210\/on-this-day-in-history-percy-montgomery-was-born-2\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T11:04:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T09:04:34","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-percy-montgomery-was-born-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/03\/15\/on-this-day-in-history-percy-montgomery-was-born-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in history: Percy Montgomery was born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 15 1974, renowned rugby player Percival Colin Montgomery was born in Windhoek, Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>The retired Springbok and provincial rugby player, became the first Springbok to score more than 800 test points.\u00a0 At one point, he was the most-capped Springbok player in the country. He was also the first player to earn a hundred caps.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/03\/Corbis-42-26800301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-99811\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/03\/Corbis-42-26800301.jpg\" alt=\"Rugby Union - International Match - England v South Africa\" width=\"368\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Montgomery&#8217;s 893 test points give him well over twice as many points as the player in second place on the all-time Springboks points list, Naas Botha.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He\u00a0announced his retirement from international test rugby in 2008 and has been working as a kicking coach for the Springboks since 2009.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Percy Montgomery Tribute\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Pva-ODkxs8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Happy Birthday Percy!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/03\/25e5b6411e008c6b89fed2a12c5bfb57.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-99813\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/03\/25e5b6411e008c6b89fed2a12c5bfb57.jpg\" alt=\"25e5b6411e008c6b89fed2a12c5bfb57\" width=\"236\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/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='51106d371b2f98e0677c657b2636121a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Springbok and Rugby Union player Percival Colin Montgomery was born in Windhoek, Namibia on this day in 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7783,"featured_media":123212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[3305,10239,5042,10240,1122,2362,1724,10241,10242,10243],"class_list":["post-123210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-history","tag-march-15","tag-namibia","tag-percival-colin-montgomery","tag-rugby","tag-south-africa","tag-sports","tag-springbok","tag-walvis-bay","tag-windhoek"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["history","March 15","Namibia","Percival Colin Montgomery","rugby","South Africa","sports","Springbok","Walvis Bay","Windhoek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123210","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\/7783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}