{"id":27773,"date":"2019-01-02T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27773"},"modified":"2019-01-02T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T16:23:08","slug":"in-a-world-of-organized-sport-fiji-bucks-the-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27773","title":{"rendered":"In a world of organized sport, Fiji bucks the trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Under the lights of a quickly-emptying Stade de France, Fiji&#8217;s rugby players came together for a huddle, a hymn, and a thanks to God. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">As the song drifted into the Parisian night, there was a sense that the words &#8220;eda sa qaqa&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;we have overcome&#8221; &#8212; carried more resonance than usual that November evening. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">This was the Fiji&#8217;s first ever victory over France. A northern hemisphere tour which had started two weeks previously with a thumping 54-17 defeat by Scotland had ended on a high note.  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Under the lights of a quickly-emptying Stade de France, Fiji&#8217;s rugby players came together for a huddle, a hymn, and a thanks to God. As the song drifted into the Parisian night, there was a sense that the words &#8220;eda sa qaqa&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;we have overcome&#8221; &#8212; carried more resonance than usual that November evening.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27773","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\/27773","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=27773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}