{"id":72043,"date":"2016-07-06T20:32:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T20:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=b5e528909e65ea85ee5285bdcf577d14"},"modified":"2016-07-06T20:32:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T20:32:34","slug":"news-story-alun-cairns-visits-cardiffs-fanzone-ahead-of-wales-historic-euro-2016-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=72043","title":{"rendered":"News story: Alun Cairns visits Cardiff\u2019s Fanzone ahead of Wales\u2019 historic Euro 2016 Semi-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Principality Stadium provides the perfect backdrop for a capacity crowd to enjoy, free of charge, this special occasion in a family friendly environment. The Euro 2016 championship has swelled the hearts of a proud Welsh nation and the home football team has propelled Wales even further onto the European stage.<br \/>\nIn times of Welsh economic buoyancy the hope is to capture the spirit of the championships and attract further inward investment opportunities.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"alun-cairns-secretary-of-state-for-wales-said\">Alun Cairns, Secretary of State for Wales, said:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Welsh football team has inspired not only our home nation but the whole UK in its fantastic progress through the Euro 2016 championships.<\/p>\n<p>Under a brilliant manager, this team has delivered passionate performances that have thrilled us all and cheered the country up. You have to look to the fairly tale triumph of Leicester City Football Club for something similarly inspiring. This Welsh team truly are the history boys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Tonight the team will again carry the hopes of the Welsh nation as they take on Portugal. Good luck and let\u2019s go all the way to the final.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alun Cairns has visited the Cardiff Fanzone ahead of Wales\u2019 semi-final Euro 2016 championship game against Portugal.<\/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\/72043"}],"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=72043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}