{"id":7115,"date":"2012-08-14T23:55:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T22:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7115"},"modified":"2012-08-14T23:55:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T22:55:10","slug":"invitation-to-rugby-7s-this-saturday-with-blog-rewind-to-the-2009-rugby-7s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7115","title":{"rendered":"Invitation to Rugby 7&#8217;s this Saturday (with blog rewind to the 2009 Rugby 7&#8217;s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12081402.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Rugby Sevens is on this Saturday and we are invited. The last time there was a blog report on this particular event was way back in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what was said &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09081614.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nIt was the 53rd running of the Abingdon Rugby Sevens pre season tournament. The first tournament in 1956 was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the town receiving its Royal Charter.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09081611.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon RFC can be seen here in Black with Emerald \/ Gold chestband against Blue Boar in Navy Blue and White hoops. There were 16 teams in all.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09081603.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nGary Linneker was quoted this week in the Radio Times as saying &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Parents shouting at kids from the touchline is my pet hate<\/span>.&#8217; I wonder what he would have made of this scene.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09081609.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nI was very impressed watching the Kamikaze Sevens from south Wales. They seemed to be the Harlem Globe Trotters of the rugby world.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09081601.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThere was also the Cheeky Ladies rugby team. They started life at Newcastle University. Their aim is to make rugby look more sexy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rugby Sevens is on this Saturday and we are invited. The last time there was a blog report on this particular event was way back in 2009. Here is what was said &#8230; It was the 53rd running of the Abingdon Rugby Sevens pre season tournament. The first tournament in 1956 was held to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}