{"id":33612,"date":"2019-02-28T20:22:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33612"},"modified":"2019-02-28T20:22:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:22:18","slug":"world-rugby-criticized-for-out-of-touch-calendar-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33612","title":{"rendered":"World Rugby criticized for &#8216;out of touch&#8217; calendar shake-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>There could be a major spanner in the works of World Rugby&#8217;s plans for a major shake-up to the game&#8217;s international setup &#8212; the players. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/rugby\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=80&#038;objectid=12208175\" target=\"_blank\">According to reports<\/a>, a new 12-team competition beginning in 2020 has been proposed which would include New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Argentina, France, England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, USA and Japan.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Teams would play each other once a year with Japan and USA added alongside the southern hemisphere teams to the Rugby Championship. Semifinals and a final would be held in the northern hemisphere in November or December. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)There could be a major spanner in the works of World Rugby&#8217;s plans for a major shake-up to the game&#8217;s international setup &#8212; the players. According to reports, a new 12-team competition beginning in 2020 has been proposed which would include New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Argentina, France, England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, USA and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33612","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\/33612","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=33612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}