{"id":58855,"date":"2023-09-30T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/30\/simione-kuruvoli-fiji-star-player-rugby-world-cup-2023-vs-georgia"},"modified":"2023-09-30T00:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T15:00:01","slug":"fijis-jonny-wilkinson-island-nation-embraces-simione-kuruvoli-ahead-of-rugby-world-cup-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58855","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fiji\u2019s Jonny Wilkinson\u2019: island nation embraces Simione Kuruvoli ahead of Rugby World Cup clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excitement builds across Pacific nation over young scrum-half who helped seal historic victory against Australia<\/p>\n<p>The island of Kadavu, Fiji has been gripped by anticipation ahead of the Pacific nation\u2019s next match in the Rugby World Cup. Preparations have taken place to make sure people won\u2019t have to crowd into one hall to watch the game. Fijians are passionate rugby supporters but in Kadavu, the next game is particularly special.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is even more exciting that Simione is from the same district as ours,\u201d says the 64-year-old Kadavu resident Iliesa Bula.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/30\/simione-kuruvoli-fiji-star-player-rugby-world-cup-2023-vs-georgia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excitement builds across Pacific nation over young scrum-half who helped seal historic victory against AustraliaThe island of Kadavu, Fiji has been gripped by anticipation ahead of the Pacific nation\u2019s next match in the Rugby World Cup. Preparations ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3985,"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":[41,436,874,223,224,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-rugby-union","category-rugby-world-cup","category-sport"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58855","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\/3985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58856,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58855\/revisions\/58856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}