{"id":3201,"date":"2007-10-07T05:33:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T05:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/10\/northern-hemisphere-rules\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T05:33:11","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T05:33:11","slug":"northern-hemisphere-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/10\/northern-hemisphere-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Hemisphere rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last four years have not been particularly kind to the English rugby fan, so to say that I wasn&#8217;t expecting much from the Rugby World Cup quarter final between England and Australia would be an understatement. In fact, I felt I was being rather optimistic in hoping that we&#8217;d give them some sort of game and not get slaughtered, like we were against South Africa a couple of weeks ago. But when it really mattered, the English team stood up to be counted, and <a href=http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/rugby_union\/7030422.stm>then some<\/a>.<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t pretty, but it was proof of that backs may look pretty when they&#8217;re running in the tries, but forwards win rugby games, because you can&#8217;t do anything if you don&#8217;t have the ball (of course, I was a forward myself, so I may be a little biased on that score). English play at the breakdown was the best I&#8217;ve seen for four depressing years. And now we get to gloat at the Aussies for <em>another<\/em> four years.<br \/>\nThen, just to make a good day better, <a href=http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/rugby_union\/7030471.stm>the French beat the All Blacks<\/a>. That&#8217;s a whole lot of lording it over the supposedly far superior Antipodeans to look forward to, and no doubt a large vat, nay a lake, of sour grapes to savour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last four years have not been particularly kind to the English rugby fan, so to say that I wasn&#8217;t expecting much from the Rugby World Cup quarter final between England and Australia would be an understatement. In fact, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/10\/northern-hemisphere-rules\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}