{"id":10446,"date":"2019-10-25T11:19:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T02:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/25\/passion-is-extreme-new-zealand-rugby-fans-brace-for-world-cup-semi-final"},"modified":"2019-10-25T11:19:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T02:19:59","slug":"passion-is-extreme-new-zealand-rugby-fans-brace-for-world-cup-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10446","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Passion is extreme&#8217;: New Zealand rugby fans brace for World Cup semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nerves, excitement and wall-to-wall coverage as All Blacks prepare to take on England in do-or-die match in Japan<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-four hours out from the do-or-die Rugby World Cup semi-final in Japan, All Blacks fans across New Zealand are beginning to feel a quiver of nervousness.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s state broadcaster assured fans on Thursday that the game would still broadcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/aug\/23\/terrible-nz-internet-prompts-concerns-over-how-to-watch-all-blacks-at-world-cup\">free-to-air TV<\/a> despite its headquarters suffering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/22\/auckland-fire-thousands-evacuated-as-huge-blaze-takes-hold-in-skycity\">smoke damage from a fire<\/a> at the nearby Skycity convention centre. Meanwhile, watching parties are planned around the country, with a long weekend and 9pm kick-off delighting fans, many of whom must travel from remote areas to pubs and hotels to ensure they get decent coverage.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/25\/passion-is-extreme-new-zealand-rugby-fans-brace-for-world-cup-semi-final\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nerves, excitement and wall-to-wall coverage as All Blacks prepare to take on England in do-or-die match in JapanTwenty-four hours out from the do-or-die Rugby World Cup semi-final in Japan, All Blacks fans across New Zealand are beginning to feel a qu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,223,224,202,203,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-rugby-union","category-rugby-world-cup","category-rugby-world-cup-2019","category-sport","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10447,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10446\/revisions\/10447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}