{"id":32311,"date":"2019-02-08T09:22:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T09:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32311"},"modified":"2019-02-08T09:22:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T09:22:46","slug":"the-rugby-player-who-overcame-a-burst-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32311","title":{"rendered":"The rugby player who overcame a burst eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>When Ian McKinley came off the bench for Italy in the opening game of the 2019 Six Nations, the image of a test rugby player in goggles was an arresting one. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The story of how the Ireland-born fly-half even got to this point, though, is much more worthy of discussion. A freak accident on the rugby field severely damaged the promising young pro&#8217;s left eye and eventually McKinley was totally robbed of sight on his left side. He retired at 21.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">And yet here he is at 29, playing test rugby for Italy and a leader for professional side Benetton Treviso. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)When Ian McKinley came off the bench for Italy in the opening game of the 2019 Six Nations, the image of a test rugby player in goggles was an arresting one. The story of how the Ireland-born fly-half even got to this point, though, is much more worthy of discussion. A freak accident on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32311","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\/32311","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=32311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}