{"id":24007,"date":"2018-12-02T12:23:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T12:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24007"},"modified":"2018-12-02T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T12:23:27","slug":"double-delight-for-new-zealand-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24007","title":{"rendered":"Double delight for New Zealand in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>New Zealand won the opening tournament of the men&#8217;s World Rugby Sevens Series in Dubai after beating the USA 21-5 in the final. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The victory, New Zealand&#8217;s first in Dubai since 2009, backed up July&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/07\/23\/sport\/new-zealand-sevens-all-blacks-world-cup-england-san-francisco\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup win in San Fransisco<\/a>. The omens for this season are good, too, as for the past three seasons the winner of the season&#8217;s first tournament has also gone on to lift the overall title.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Tone Ng Shiu&#8217;s try gave the Kiwis a 7-0 lead heading into halftime, but they were reduced to six men at the start of the second period and Stephen Tomasin mustered a repsonse for the USA. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)New Zealand won the opening tournament of the men&#8217;s World Rugby Sevens Series in Dubai after beating the USA 21-5 in the final. The victory, New Zealand&#8217;s first in Dubai since 2009, backed up July&#8217;s World Cup win in San Fransisco. The omens for this season are good, too, as for the past three seasons&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24007","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\/24007","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=24007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}