{"id":62706,"date":"2015-10-09T23:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=04a27688d9ad0d73e3be8c56475fd102"},"modified":"2015-10-09T23:00:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T23:00:01","slug":"press-release-stephen-crabb-its-waless-time-to-shine-on-sporting-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=62706","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Stephen Crabb: It\u2019s Wales\u2019s time to shine on sporting stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb has signalled that today is Wales\u2019s moment to shine ahead of what could be a significant weekend of Welsh sporting celebrations (Saturday 10 October).<\/p>\n<p>In the Rugby World Cup, Warren Gatland\u2019s men will take on Australia aiming to claim the victory that would see them top their pool, and seal a favourable quarter-final draw.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Chris Coleman\u2019s football team have travelled to Bosnia-Herzegovina for their penultimate European Championship qualifier. Just one point will see their place at a first major tournament secured for the first time since 1958.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"secretary-of-state-for-wales-stephen-crabb-said\">Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb said:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Saturday promises to be a fantastic occasion, not just for the Welshmen taking to the field in their national colours, but for their supporters all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>We can be rightly proud of what these players have achieved. Welsh success at the highest level can do so much to inspire our younger generations to work hard to reach their goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I\u2019m looking forward to seeing the nation join together this Saturday, to rally behind our national teams in what is set to be an exhilarating day of competition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countdown to crucial sporting weekend for Wales\u2019s rugby and football teams begins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}