{"id":24005,"date":"2018-12-02T12:23:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T12:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24005"},"modified":"2018-12-02T12:23:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T12:23:21","slug":"english-rugby-star-risking-it-all-with-nfl-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24005","title":{"rendered":"English rugby star risking it all with NFL switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>If a New Year heralds a fresh start, then for Christian Wade &#8212; who has left a prolific rugby career for a shot at the NFL &#8212; January 2019 will be more of a leap into the unknown.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve never played it,&#8221; he confesses, &#8220;just watched as a fan and admired from afar.&#8221;  <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">American football has a long history of welcoming players from different athletic backgrounds, or of watching players leave to pursue opportunities in another sport. Few cross-code players, however, have pedigree quite like Wade.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)If a New Year heralds a fresh start, then for Christian Wade &#8212; who has left a prolific rugby career for a shot at the NFL &#8212; January 2019 will be more of a leap into the unknown. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never played it,&#8221; he confesses, &#8220;just watched as a fan and admired from afar.&#8221; American football&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24005","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\/24005","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=24005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}