{"id":76915,"date":"2014-11-25T11:15:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T11:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=76915"},"modified":"2020-10-24T13:06:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T12:06:29","slug":"less-12-months-rugby-world-cup-commences-hosts-england-know-benchmark-high-following-new-zealands-staging-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/less-12-months-rugby-world-cup-commences-hosts-england-know-benchmark-high-following-new-zealands-staging-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"With less than 12 months until the Rugby World Cup commences, hosts England know the benchmark is high following New Zealand&#8217;s staging in 2011."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pic credit inpho.ie see more at :- <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Inphosports\/media\">twitter.com\/Inphosports\/media<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the finest moments in New Zealand&#8217;s sporting history culminated in the All Blacks beating France in the final at Eden Park, Auckland to lift the William Webb Ellis Cup for a second time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionsrugby.com\/news\/13394.php#.VG33kTSsV8Q\">More than 133,000 visitors descended on New Zealand<\/a> &#8211; hosts of the 2017 British &amp; Irish Lions&#8217; tour &#8211; between September and October three years ago, with the average crowd for 48 matches hitting almost 31,000.<\/p>\n<p>With players and fans alike able to enjoy the vast array of entertainment and activities on offer away from the pitch, the tournament was said to have &#8220;four million hosts&#8221; with the showpiece becoming as much a national festival as a rugby tournament for proud Kiwis&#8230;&#8230;.. see more at :-\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionsrugby.com\/news\/13394.php#.VHRjD9KsXSg\">http:\/\/www.lionsrugby.com\/news\/13394.php#.VHRjD9KsXSg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pic credit inpho.ie see more at :- twitter.com\/Inphosports\/media One of the finest moments in New Zealand&#8217;s sporting history culminated in the All Blacks beating France in the final at Eden Park, Auckland to lift the William Webb Ellis Cup for a second time. More than 133,000 visitors descended on New Zealand &#8211; hosts of 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":[3],"tags":[15469,5519,2450,5771,3959,5670],"class_list":["post-76915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-benchmark","tag-cup","tag-england","tag-high","tag-rugby","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76915","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=76915"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633115,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76915\/revisions\/633115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}