{"id":1378,"date":"2010-04-02T05:19:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T04:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2010-04-02T18:15:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T17:15:04","slug":"canadian-touring-side-make-a-stop-at-instonians-rfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/canadian-touring-side-make-a-stop-at-instonians-rfc\/","title":{"rendered":"American Touring side make a stop at Instonians RFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tues 23rd of March <strong>American<\/strong> club side <strong>WILLAMETTE<\/strong> Rugby played a hard fought game agaisnt Instonians RFC 4ths.<\/p>\n<p>We caught up with the side and their captain Stephen Scott after the game,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The match last night was a hard fought battle between equal teams with different playing styles. Though Willamette  learned much from the match, high  among  the most treasured memories we will take back to America  are those  from the post-match social.<\/p>\n<p>Our team gained the friendship and earned the respect of  the  Instonians. And Instonians served only to increase the high regard in which they are held.<\/p>\n<p>Brian (Inst captain) and I exchanged plaques and kits. The exchange reinforced that even separated by thousands of miles, we not only share &#8211; but  embrace a common bond to our  rugby community.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.co.uk\/intouchrugby\/23rdMarch2010InstoniansVWilliametteRugby#\">Willamette in action against Inst.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tour included a stop in Dublin for a Six Nations game and a visit to Edinburgh, but the stop at Instonians was rather special as one of the Willamette squad had actually played the previous season at Instonians.<\/p>\n<p>It is great to see the links with rugby in Ulster developing across the Atlantic and we wish Willamette rugby every success in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tues 23rd of March American club side WILLAMETTE Rugby played a hard fought game agaisnt Instonians RFC 4ths. We caught up with the side and their captain Stephen Scott after the game, &#8220;The match last night was a hard fought battle between equal teams with different playing styles. Though Willamette learned much from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[17227,1241,1270,1239],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instonians-rugby","tag-instonians-rugby","tag-stephen-scott","tag-usa-rugby","tag-williamette-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}