{"id":28742,"date":"2019-01-11T19:22:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T19:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28742"},"modified":"2019-01-11T19:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T19:22:58","slug":"south-african-superman-achieves-impossible-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28742","title":{"rendered":"South African &#8216;Superman&#8217; achieves impossible dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>There was a time not so long ago in South Africa when people like Siya Kolisi weren&#8217;t supposed to captain the country&#8217;s beloved rugby team. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Even a career as a professional sportsman seemed a lifetime away for a young boy growing up in the township of Zwide, Port Elizabeth. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;For me, things that we dreamed about were being a taxi driver or doing things that I&#8217;m not supposed to be doing,&#8221; the backrow forward tells CNN World Rugby.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)There was a time not so long ago in South Africa when people like Siya Kolisi weren&#8217;t supposed to captain the country&#8217;s beloved rugby team. Even a career as a professional sportsman seemed a lifetime away for a young boy growing up in the township of Zwide, Port Elizabeth. &#8220;For me, things that we dreamed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28742","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\/28742","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=28742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}