{"id":954,"date":"2015-10-13T11:11:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T09:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=954"},"modified":"2015-10-13T11:35:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T09:35:01","slug":"rugby-world-cup-2015-and-an-intro-to-rugby-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/rugby-world-cup-2015-and-an-intro-to-rugby-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby World Cup 2015 (and an Intro to Rugby for Beginners)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This weekend will see the quarter finals of the Rugby World Cup 2015. Like the FIFA\u00a0World Cup, it is held every 4 year, with this year&#8217;s event hosted by England. With the pool stage finished, 8 teams have made it to the quarter finals \u2013 South Africa, Wales, France, New Zealand, Ireland, Argentina, Australia and Scotland<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/quarters.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-963 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/quarters.jpg\" alt=\"quarters\" width=\"743\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/quarters.jpg 743w, http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/quarters-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you want to take this opportunity to watch some top-level international rugby, Eurosport is the only free-to-air channel showing <em>some<\/em> of the matches on German TV. If you can find a way to watch British ITV, they are showing all the games live. And most Irish \/ British pubs will be showing the games, just phone one and ask. To help you enjoy this very complex sport, have a look at the video below, it will explain some of the basics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_38897\"  width=\"604\" height=\"340\"  data-origwidth=\"604\" data-origheight=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ke4XcnbulT0?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend will see the quarter finals of the Rugby World Cup 2015. Like the FIFA\u00a0World Cup, it is held every 4 year, with this year&#8217;s event hosted by England. With the pool stage finished, 8 teams have made it to the quarter finals \u2013 South Africa, Wales, France, New Zealand, Ireland, Argentina, Australia and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}