{"id":37521,"date":"2019-03-26T20:23:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37521"},"modified":"2019-03-26T20:23:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:23:15","slug":"rugbys-poignant-tribute-to-christchurch-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37521","title":{"rendered":"Rugby&#8217;s poignant tribute to Christchurch victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>There were emotional scenes at the Sydney Cricket Ground as players from the Crusaders and the New South Wales Waratahs formed a huddle ahead of Saturday&#8217;s Super Rugby game to pay tribute to the victims of the mosque shootings in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Crusaders, Christchurch&#8217;s most prestigious sports team, were playing their first game since last week&#8217;s events that killed 50 people. The two teams walked onto the pitch side-by-side and a minute&#8217;s silence was held before the match.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Crusaders players wore white armbands bearing the word &#8220;united&#8221; and the date of the attack and the two opposing coaches Scott Robertson and Daryl Gibson &#8212; both former players for the Canterbury club &#8212; also stood together. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)There were emotional scenes at the Sydney Cricket Ground as players from the Crusaders and the New South Wales Waratahs formed a huddle ahead of Saturday&#8217;s Super Rugby game to pay tribute to the victims of the mosque shootings in Christchurch.The Crusaders, Christchurch&#8217;s most prestigious sports team, were playing their first game since last week&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37521","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\/37521","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=37521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}