{"id":223,"date":"2007-09-13T07:09:50","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T05:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2007-09-13T07:09:50","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T05:09:50","slug":"the-year-of-the-minnows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/the-year-of-the-minnows\/","title":{"rendered":"The year of the minnows .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At both the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rugbyworldcup.com\/\">Rugby World Cup<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/worldtwenty20.yahoo.com\/\">Twenty20 world cup<\/a> it is the minnows and second string teams that are stealing the limelight.<\/p>\n<p>It all started on Friday when Argentina&#xA0; beat France at the RWC.&#xA0; Then Namibia played out of their skins against Ireland and USA did not give up against England.&#xA0; Even last night most people probably thought that Italy would run rampant over Romania.&#xA0; This did not happen.<\/p>\n<p>But our neighbors went one better yesterday evening in the Twenty20 cricket.&#xA0; Zimbabwe beat the mighty Australians.&#xA0; This is just great.<\/p>\n<p>Six rainbows across Norway   <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap070912.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"id\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/0709\/sixrainbows_nordvik.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><em><font size=\"1\">Credit &amp; Copyright: Terje O. Nordvik<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:7c463155-294c-479c-bf43-87a80a4fbf3e\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags:  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/rugby%20world%20cup\/\" rel=\"tag\">rugby world cup<\/a> \t\t,  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/twenty20\/\" rel=\"tag\">twenty20<\/a> \t\t,  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/rugby\/\" rel=\"tag\">rugby<\/a> \t\t,  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/cricket\/\" rel=\"tag\">cricket<\/a> \t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At both the Rugby World Cup and the Twenty20 world cup it is the minnows and second string teams that are stealing the limelight. It all started on Friday when Argentina&#xA0; beat France at the RWC.&#xA0; Then Namibia played out <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/the-year-of-the-minnows\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The year of the minnows ..<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}