{"id":9209,"date":"2011-10-23T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=9209"},"modified":"2012-09-12T22:53:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T10:53:56","slug":"todays-the-big-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/10\/23\/todays-the-big-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s The Big Day …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I’ve finally caught World Cup Fever—I’m even going to be in front of the TV tonight to watch as the New Zealand All Blacks square off against France’s national team, Les Bleus, for the grand final of the four-yearly Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned on Friday, it’s a case of historic deja vu because the final of the first ever Rugby World Cup, in 1987, was also played in Auckland’s Eden Park between the All Blacks and the French. And yes, the All Blacks did win, back then … But what will tonight bring?<\/p>\n

Like everyone else, I shall have to watch the game and find out!<\/p>\n

But I had probably better ‘fess up here: even though I did much of my growing up in the King Country, which is heartland rugby country, I’m probably something of an apostate in only having a mild enthusiasm for the game. I will enjoy watching the final and I would certainly like the All Blacks to win, but I’ll get over it pretty quickly if they don’t. At the end of the day, for me it is “only a game.” (OK, OK, I know—duly going to wash my mouth out right now! \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And of course at noon today I’ll be at the WETA Cave, on the cnr of Camperdown Rd and Weka Street in Wellington, enjoying the launch of Mary Victoria’s Oracle’s Fire<\/strong><\/em><\/span>. I hope to see some of you there—and one thing you won’t hear me saying is: [Shrug] “It’s only a book!” Because as we all know, there’s-no-such-thing! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, I’ve finally caught World Cup Fever—I’m even going to be in front of the TV tonight to watch as the New Zealand All Blacks square off against France’s national team, Les Bleus, for the grand final of the four-yearly Rugby World Cup. As I mentioned on Friday, it’s a case of historic deja vu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9209"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15933,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9209\/revisions\/15933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}