{"id":31811,"date":"2019-02-04T23:22:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31811"},"modified":"2019-02-04T23:22:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T23:22:09","slug":"from-south-african-township-to-springboks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31811","title":{"rendered":"From South African township to Springboks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Cape Town (CNN)<\/cite>When South African women&#8217;s sevens player Babalwa Latsha took up rugby a few years ago it wasn&#8217;t just a new sport she had to master.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">To begin with she had concerns about her safety.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;There would be times where I would like to go for an evening run, but I can&#8217;t because I live in a township,&#8221; the 24-year-old tells CNN of her area of Khayelitsha, based in the Western Cape section of Cape Town. &#8220;It&#8217;s not the safest thing to do.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town (CNN)When South African women&#8217;s sevens player Babalwa Latsha took up rugby a few years ago it wasn&#8217;t just a new sport she had to master.To begin with she had concerns about her safety.&#8221;There would be times where I would like to go for an evening run, but I can&#8217;t because I live in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31811","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\/31811","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=31811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}