{"id":36343,"date":"2019-03-20T03:22:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T03:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36343"},"modified":"2019-03-20T03:22:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T03:22:52","slug":"rugby-side-mulls-changing-name-after-christchurch-massacre-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36343","title":{"rendered":"Rugby side mulls changing name after Christchurch massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>New Zealand&#8217;s most decorated Super Rugby side the Crusaders are considering a name change following <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/19\/asia\/jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-christchurch-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">last week&#8217;s mosque shootings in Christchurch that killed 50 people<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The country&#8217;s Minister for Sport and Recreation Grant Robertson said that he is aware conversations are taking place between the club and the city&#8217;s Muslim community and that such actions are &#8220;appropriate.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Clearly this is a big issue in Canterbury. The Crusaders is a well-established name and brand. I think it&#8217;s a responsible action to undertake those conversations now,&#8221; Robertson told reporters on Tuesday. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)New Zealand&#8217;s most decorated Super Rugby side the Crusaders are considering a name change following last week&#8217;s mosque shootings in Christchurch that killed 50 people. The country&#8217;s Minister for Sport and Recreation Grant Robertson said that he is aware conversations are taking place between the club and the city&#8217;s Muslim community and that such actions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36343","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=36343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}