{"id":2051,"date":"2016-03-11T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:37:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:37:56","slug":"rugby-in-the-caribbean-prepping-for-world-cup-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"Rugby: in the Caribbean, prepping for World Cup 2019."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb08c6dc5a970d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jamaica rugby\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201bb08c6dc5a970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb08c6dc5a970d-150wi\" style=\"width: 140px;\" title=\"Jamaica rugby\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great! As the former captain of the Jamaica National side (1978-1979) I&#39;m proud of &quot;the boys.&quot; When I was there the game was played mainly by expatriates &#8211; with the exception of the Army team, there were very few Jamaicans playing. Hopefully the Cayman Islands will also do well (I was there from 1979 to 1981).<\/p>\n<p>Also, amazing that Nigel Owens, who refed the finals of the recent World Cup refed this one.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8zpdTZq58ns\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great! As the former captain of the Jamaica National side (1978-1979) I&#39;m proud of &quot;the boys.&quot; When I was there the game was played mainly by expatriates &#8211; with the exception of the Army team, there were very few Jamaicans playing. Hopefully the Cayman Islands will also do well (I was there from 1979 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8071,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/8071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}