{"id":38853,"date":"2019-04-05T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T11:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38853"},"modified":"2019-04-05T11:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T11:22:51","slug":"a-bucket-list-destination-for-sports-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38853","title":{"rendered":"A &#8216;bucket list&#8217; destination for sports fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>In 2015, high over the North Stand of Hong Kong Stadium, above the commentators and scorers booths, comedian Al Murray sipped from a bottle of water. It had been a pleasantly grueling few days at the Hong Kong Sevens. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Asked about the key to enjoying the tournament, he said: &#8220;You just have to hand yourself over and not worry about what time of day or night it might be.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Two days later, high-spirited commentator Sean Maloney <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanny202\/status\/582274668582682624\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> of the Hong Kong Sevens: &#8220;It&#8217;s like fighting Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali on alternating nights for an entire week [sic].&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)In 2015, high over the North Stand of Hong Kong Stadium, above the commentators and scorers booths, comedian Al Murray sipped from a bottle of water. It had been a pleasantly grueling few days at the Hong Kong Sevens. Asked about the key to enjoying the tournament, he said: &#8220;You just have to hand yourself&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38853","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\/38853","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=38853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}