{"id":7705,"date":"2016-08-04T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/08\/04\/olympic-womens-team-captain-calls-rugby-7s-a-perfect-game-for-america\/"},"modified":"2016-08-04T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T09:21:00","slug":"olympic-womens-team-captain-calls-rugby-7s-a-perfect-game-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/olympic-womens-team-captain-calls-rugby-7s-a-perfect-game-for-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Women&#039;s Team Captain Calls Rugby 7s &#039;A Perfect Game For America&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/04\/488637654\/olympic-womens-team-captain-calls-rugby-7s-a-perfect-game-for-america?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">Tom Goldman<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>You may not know about Rugby Sevens, but you will. This shorter, faster version of the sport is making its Olympic debut 92 years after rugby \u2014 the longer 15s version \u2014 was last in the Olympics. And women&#8217;s rugby is making its first appearance ever.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/04\/488637654\/olympic-womens-team-captain-calls-rugby-7s-a-perfect-game-for-america?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Olympic Women&#039;s Team Captain Calls Rugby 7s &#039;A Perfect Game For America&#039;\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/04\/488637654\/olympic-womens-team-captain-calls-rugby-7s-a-perfect-game-for-america?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not know about Rugby Sevens, but you will. This shorter, faster version of the sport is making its Olympic debut 92 years after rugby \u2014 the longer 15s version \u2014 was last in the Olympics. And women&#8217;s rugby is making its first appearance ever.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}