{"id":3176,"date":"2011-03-30T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:49:26","slug":"rugby-hong-kong-sevens-part-of-the-annual-world-series-sevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3176","title":{"rendered":"Rugby: Hong Kong Sevens &#8211; part of the annual World Series Sevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final between New Zealand and England starts at the minute and a half mark.<\/p>\n<p>Note that Tom and Brigid were at the 1990 Hong Kong Seven&#39;s and had midfield seats for the famous final (and&#0160;I&#0160;love to remind everyone at any opportunity)&#0160;between New Zealand and Fiji. Unfortunately, no longer available on youtube (copyright issues). Fiji rallied to win, with spectacular tries, including the backbreaker when a Fijian gave a long tap pass and the receiver flicked it between his legs to give the wing a 70 yard run-in. Will have to find that one online.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#39;s this year&#39;s match<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CTra3h_LtsQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final between New Zealand and England starts at the minute and a half mark. Note that Tom and Brigid were at the 1990 Hong Kong Seven&#39;s and had midfield seats for the famous final (and&#0160;I&#0160;love to remind everyone at any opportunity)&#0160;between New Zealand and Fiji. Unfortunately, no longer available on youtube (copyright issues). Fiji [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","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=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8841,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions\/8841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}