{"id":21766,"date":"2018-11-09T12:23:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T12:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21766"},"modified":"2018-11-09T12:23:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T12:23:04","slug":"the-all-blacks-on-pressure-and-why-poppies-are-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21766","title":{"rendered":"The All Blacks on pressure and why poppies are &#8216;special&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Their all black jerseys are recognizable the world over, but playing with a red poppy on the sleeve to honor those killed in war will be &#8220;a special occasion,&#8221; according to New Zealand rugby coach Steve Hansen. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The All Blacks and opponents England will both sport the iconic emblem of remembrance when they clash at Twickenham, London Saturday, a day before the centenary of Armistice Day signaling the end of World War I.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The wearing of poppies to commemorate the fallen has raised emotions in recent times, with Manchester United footballer <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/05\/football\/nemanja-matic-manchester-united-poppy-serbia-spt-intl\/index.html\">Nemanja Matic refusing to wear one<\/a> on his shirt last weekend because it reminded him of his childhood when the former Yugoslavia was bombed in a NATO-air campaign that lasted 78 days in 1999.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Their all black jerseys are recognizable the world over, but playing with a red poppy on the sleeve to honor those killed in war will be &#8220;a special occasion,&#8221; according to New Zealand rugby coach Steve Hansen. The All Blacks and opponents England will both sport the iconic emblem of remembrance when they clash at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}