{"id":3120,"date":"2014-11-04T22:25:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T21:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2014-11-04T22:25:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T21:25:21","slug":"rugby-dangerous-children-play-heres-every-parent-needs-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/rugby-dangerous-children-play-heres-every-parent-needs-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Is rugby too dangerous for children to play? Here’s what every parent needs to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAfter Allyson M Pollock’s son suffered a spate of serious injuries playing the game, she spent a decade investigating the risks. The results were surprising and alarming. Here’s what every parent needs to know<\/p>\n

It is one of those perfect Saturday afternoons in early autumn in Edinburgh; low sun, a cool wind blows and behind the high, white goalposts, the Pentland hills form a glorious backdrop to the fine old oak and chestnut trees sheltering the pitch. Parents gather for the weekly ritual of watching their sons play rugby.<\/p>\n

The air resounds with calls of “Tackle! Tackle!” as the opposition moves the ball swiftly out to the wing, stretching our defence. “Take him out,” someone yells and a flanker launches himself at the winger’s legs, bringing him down……… see more at :- http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/features\/is-rugby-too-dangerous-for-children-to-play-9778518.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Allyson M Pollock’s son suffered a spate of serious injuries playing the game, she spent a decade investigating the risks. The results were surprising and alarming. Here’s what every parent needs to know It is one of those perfect Saturday afternoons in early autumn in Edinburgh; low sun, a cool wind blows and behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[1498,1497,1501,1500,1499,26],"class_list":["post-3120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","tag-children","tag-dangerous","tag-know","tag-needs","tag-parent","tag-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120","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=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3122,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions\/3122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}