{"id":50354,"date":"2022-11-19T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/18\/what-a-time-to-be-alive-rugby-league-fever-grips-samoa-after-teams-surprise-world-cup-run"},"modified":"2022-11-19T01:23:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T16:23:00","slug":"what-a-time-to-be-alive-rugby-league-fever-grips-samoa-after-teams-surprise-world-cup-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50354","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What a time to be alive\u2019: rugby league fever grips Samoa after team\u2019s surprise World Cup run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houses have been painted blue and flags are sold out across the island country ahead of the grand final against Australia on Saturday at Old Trafford<\/p>\n<p>On the main street of Apia, the capital of Samoa, everything is blue. People are in royal blue T-shirts, blue streamers hang from car windows, some houses have even been painted blue in the last week.<\/p>\n<p>Samoans are decked out in the colours of their Toa Samoa, the national men\u2019s rugby league team, the surprise stars of the Rugby League World Cup.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/18\/what-a-time-to-be-alive-rugby-league-fever-grips-samoa-after-teams-surprise-world-cup-run\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houses have been painted blue and flags are sold out across the island country ahead of the grand final against Australia on Saturday at Old TraffordOn the main street of Apia, the capital of Samoa, everything is blue. People are in royal blue T-shirts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3441,"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":[41,936,203,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-samoa","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\/50354","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\/3441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50355,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50354\/revisions\/50355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}