{"id":164167,"date":"2018-05-18T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=164167"},"modified":"2018-05-18T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T21:53:00","slug":"calamba-to-host-png-rugby-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/18\/calamba-to-host-png-rugby-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Calamba to host PNG rugby event"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_164168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164168\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Rugby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-164168\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Rugby.jpg\" alt=\"The city of Calamba got the right to host the rugby sevens competition of the Philippine National Games (PNG). (Pixabay photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Rugby.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Rugby-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Rugby-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-164168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Calamba got the right to host the rugby sevens competition of the Philippine National Games (PNG). (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The city of Calamba got the right to host the rugby sevens competition of the Philippine National Games (PNG).<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Plains Clubhouse in the Canlubang district will be the venue of the rugby games scheduled for Saturday with the first game kicking off at 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The development makes rugby the second PNG sport to be held outside Cebu.<\/p>\n<p>Cebu City, the main host of the PNG, had to find a different venue for the rugby sevens event due to lack of available venues.<\/p>\n<p>Nine teams, including Cebu City, will take part in the said event. Interestingly, neither Calamba City nor the Laguna province will participate despite getting the hosting right.<\/p>\n<p>Olongapo City, Pampanga, Palawan, Albay, Quezon City, Makati City, Davao City and General Santos City are the other eight teams in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Pampanga, led by Volcano Jonel Madrona, looks to go back-to-back in the men&#8217;s division, while Cebu City tries to do the same in the distaff side.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The city of Calamba got the right to host the rugby sevens competition of the Philippine National Games (PNG). &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":164168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[5610,51038],"class_list":["post-164167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-calamba","tag-png-rugby","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}