{"id":59485,"date":"2023-10-29T10:03:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T01:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/29\/for-all-blacks-fans-a-rugby-world-cup-miracle-reignited-hope-and-then-snuffed-it-out"},"modified":"2023-10-29T10:03:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T01:03:12","slug":"for-all-blacks-fans-a-rugby-world-cup-miracle-reignited-hope-and-then-snuffed-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59485","title":{"rendered":"For All Blacks fans, a Rugby World Cup miracle reignited hope \u2013 and then snuffed it out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Jack Hackett sports bar in Wellington, New Zealand fans balanced on the edge of anxiety and hope all the way until the final whistle<\/p>\n<p>For the crush of All Blacks fans at Jack Hackett Sports Bar in Wellington, New Zealand, the hope that hardly anyone expected to have died hard.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 supporters crowded the Irish-themed pub \u2013 rapidly redecorated with silver ferns, New Zealand flags, and black and white balloons draped from a stuffed moose \u2013 for a breakfast of hash browns, sausages and Guinness pints. A smattering wore hastily found All Blacks jerseys from 2011 and 2015: the years of New Zealand\u2019s most recent Rugby World Cup titles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/29\/for-all-blacks-fans-a-rugby-world-cup-miracle-reignited-hope-and-then-snuffed-it-out\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Jack Hackett sports bar in Wellington, New Zealand fans balanced on the edge of anxiety and hope all the way until the final whistleFor the crush of All Blacks fans at Jack Hackett Sports Bar in Wellington, New Zealand, the hope that hardly anyo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"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":[41,56,776,223,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-rugby-union-team","category-rugby-union","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\/59485","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\/2251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59486,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59485\/revisions\/59486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}