{"id":3569,"date":"2012-03-17T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/03\/17\/grand-slam\/"},"modified":"2012-03-17T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T16:48:08","slug":"grand-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/03\/17\/grand-slam\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Slam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/welsh-grand-slam.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" alt=\"Welsh grand slam\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nI don&#8217;t quite know why I started watching the 2008 England v Wales Six Nations match that one Saturday, but I became hooked immediately. Since no decent person can root for England in any sport, I chose the Welsh to cheer on, which turned out to be a good choice as they won the Grand Slam that year, winning all five their matches, conceding only two tries. Since that high point Wales has been a bit disappointing until today, as they won another Grand Slam. It wasn&#8217;t as magnificent as 2008, but it has been incredibly tense these past weeks, as no Welsh win was won easily.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve come to enjoying spectator sports only lately, partially as distraction from you know what and Six Nations rugby has always been good. It&#8217;s even better when your chosen team wins&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t quite know why I started watching the 2008 England v Wales Six Nations match that one Saturday, but I became hooked immediately. Since no decent person can root for England in any sport, I chose the Welsh to cheer on, which turned out to be a good choice as they won the Grand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[333,27],"tags":[1573,1571,1572],"class_list":["post-3569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me","tag-grand-slam","tag-six-nations-rugby","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}