{"id":1080,"date":"2005-04-11T13:13:17","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T13:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/04\/rugby\/"},"modified":"2005-04-11T13:13:17","modified_gmt":"2005-04-11T13:13:17","slug":"rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/rugby\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can it really be true that rugby union want to do away with automatic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,377-1560809,00.html\">promotion and relegation<\/a>? I really do wonder about the rugby authorities.<br \/>\nSo we end up with a league that becomes meaningless dead rubbers by the end of the season, with the dull games that would bring about. Of course there&#8217;s also the possibility that a major club would be relegated in the last season that relegation occurs, and gets shut out as a consequence.<br \/>\nAdd this to the fact that club rugby on terrestrial television is limited to a handful of Powergen Cup games and post-midnight highlights on Sunday evenings, and you&#8217;re looking at a sport that really doesn&#8217;t think about its own future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can it really be true that rugby union want to do away with automatic promotion and relegation? I really do wonder about the rugby authorities. So we end up with a league that becomes meaningless dead rubbers by the end of the season, with the dull games that would bring about. Of course there&#8217;s also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}