{"id":1423,"date":"2007-03-31T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1423"},"modified":"2007-03-31T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-31T12:18:00","slug":"hong-kong-rugby-sevens-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1423","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Rugby Sevens: Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too exhausted to write about this properly.<br \/>\nEight straight hours of watching rugby today.<br \/>\nGames are fast &#8211; two 7 minute halves, and a 2 minute break between.<br \/>\nSaw twenty games total.<br \/>\nNot to sound unpatriotic, but Canada played like dogshit.<br \/>\nChina 21, Canada 19. &#8212; Samoa 41, Canada ZERO.<br \/>\nTomorrow I&#8217;m rooting for Scotland. I bought a blue wig and a kilt at the Night Market.<br \/>\nTomorrow we will sit in the infamously rowdy 18+ South Stand.<br \/>\nNothing is worse than a French rugby fan. SO RUDE.<br \/>\n&#8220;ASSAYEZ-VOUS ET DEFENSE DE FUMER! VOUS ETES SEULEMENT DOUZE ANS, OU EST VOTRE MAMAN?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/pipesdreams\/pic\/0008caxr\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/pipesdreams\/pic\/0008a1g5\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/pipesdreams\/pic\/0008bsdt\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too exhausted to write about this properly. Eight straight hours of watching rugby today. Games are fast &#8211; two 7 minute halves, and a 2 minute break between. Saw twenty games total. Not to sound unpatriotic, but Canada played like dogshit. China 21, Canada 19. &#8212; Samoa 41, Canada ZERO. Tomorrow I&#8217;m rooting for Scotland. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1423\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/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-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}