{"id":18480,"date":"2020-05-21T08:34:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T23:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/21\/bring-our-boys-back-home-rugby-team-from-tonga-trapped-in-new-zealand-due-to-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-05-21T08:34:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T23:34:21","slug":"bring-our-boys-back-home-rugby-team-from-tonga-trapped-in-new-zealand-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18480","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bring our boys back home&#8217;: rugby team from Tonga trapped in New Zealand due to Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 29-strong squad have been sleeping on the floor of an Auckland church and surviving off donated food after Tonga closed its borders<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/11\/coronavirus-in-the-pacific-sign-up-for-weekly-email-updates\">Sign up to the coronavirus in the Pacific weekly briefing to your inbox<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the past six weeks, the days have followed a particular pattern for the players and coaching staff of the Tu\u2019uakitau rugby team from Tonga.<\/p>\n<p>They get up from their beds \u2013 mattresses on the floor of a church in Auckland where they are locked down \u2013 pray, sing hymns, eat a breakfast made of donated food, and then train.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/21\/bring-our-boys-back-home-rugby-team-from-tonga-trapped-in-new-zealand-due-to-covid-19\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 29-strong squad have been sleeping on the floor of an Auckland church and surviving off donated food after Tonga closed its bordersSign up to the coronavirus in the Pacific weekly briefing to your inboxFor the past six weeks, the days have followed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1322,"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":[41,56,223,203,280,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-rugby-union","category-sport","category-tonga","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\/18480","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\/1322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18481,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18480\/revisions\/18481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}