{"id":11663,"date":"2015-06-17T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/?p=11663"},"modified":"2015-06-17T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T07:55:09","slug":"introducing-the-first-world-university-rugby-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/introducing-the-first-world-university-rugby-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the first World University Rugby Cup!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This autumn the first ever World University Rugby Cup (WURC) will be held in England. Hosted by Oxford University Rugby Football Club (OURFC) the competition will see eight teams from across five continents compete to win the University World Champion title. <\/p>\n<p>The WURC will run parallel to the Rugby World Cup every four years, and in 2019 the event is being hosted by Waseda University in Japan. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Teams include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 University of Oxford (England)<br \/>\n\u2022 Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)<br \/>\n\u2022 University of Cape Town (South Africa)<br \/>\n\u2022 New Zealand Universities (collective university team) (New Zealand)<br \/>\n\u2022 Waseda University (Japan)<br \/>\n\u2022 University of British Columbia (Canada)<br \/>\n\u2022 Stanford University (USA)<br \/>\n\u2022 Siberian Federal University (Russia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This autumn the first ever World University Rugby Cup (WURC) will be held in England. Hosted by Oxford University Rugby Football Club (OURFC) the competition will see eight teams from across five continents compete to win the University World Champion title. The WURC will run parallel to the Rugby World Cup every four years, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11665,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions\/11665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}