{"id":4825,"date":"2005-11-30T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4825"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:29:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:29:45","slug":"rugby_all_black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4825","title":{"rendered":"Rugby &#8211; All Blacks do the &#8220;Grand Slam&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">This past Saturday the New Zealand All Blacks completed the \u201cGrand Slam\u201d defeating Scotland, 29-10 at Murrayfield (the Scottish home ground). It was an incredible year for the New Zealand National team \u2013 which means an incredible year for the Country of New Zealand, who take enormous pride in their rugby. If you\u2019re interested see here for my comments earlier,&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2005\/11\/new_zealand_23_.html\">Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: New Zealand 23 &#8211; England 19<\/a> and here for a good article on their accomplishments this year.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rugbyheaven.smh.com.au\/articles\/2005\/11\/28\/1133026390342.html\">A special year for All Blacks &#8211; International &#8211; RugbyHeaven<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday the New Zealand All Blacks completed the \u201cGrand Slam\u201d defeating Scotland, 29-10 at Murrayfield (the Scottish home ground). It was an incredible year for the New Zealand National team \u2013 which means an incredible year for the Country of New Zealand, who take enormous pride in their rugby. If you\u2019re interested see [&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-4825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825","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=4825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9865,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions\/9865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}