{"id":32477,"date":"2019-02-19T13:27:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T13:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32477"},"modified":"2019-02-19T13:27:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T13:27:32","slug":"the-barrister-laying-down-the-law-to-heavyweights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32477","title":{"rendered":"The barrister laying down the law to heavyweights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Wayne Barnes is well versed in how the two lives of a rugby referee often collide.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">His current boss &#8212; in rugby terms at least &#8212; is Tony Spreadbury, who worked as a paramedic in his earlier days refereeing.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;He did an early kick-off in Newport,&#8221; says Barnes retelling the tale. &#8220;He then had to get on his paramedic kit after that and attended to a chap having a heart attack. The guy looked up struggling for breath and was a little shocked to recognize &#8216;Spreaders&#8217; from the game, only to have to be resuscitated by him.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Wayne Barnes is well versed in how the two lives of a rugby referee often collide.His current boss &#8212; in rugby terms at least &#8212; is Tony Spreadbury, who worked as a paramedic in his earlier days refereeing.&#8221;He did an early kick-off in Newport,&#8221; says Barnes retelling the tale. &#8220;He then had to get on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32477","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\/32477","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=32477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}