{"id":151646,"date":"2025-10-29T15:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/151646\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:07:07","slug":"littler-misses-players-championship-due-to-traffic-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/151646\/","title":{"rendered":"Littler misses Players Championship due to traffic jam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Littler will miss Wednesday&#8217;s Players Championship event in Wigan after a traffic jam caused the world number two to miss the registration cut-off.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood the 18-year-old was stuck in road congestion and did not arrive in time for the strict 11am deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning world champion has already qualified for next month&#8217;s finals in Minehead after winning Players Championship 32 earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Littler appeared to take the setback in stride, sharing a picture from inside the car to his Instagram story alongside the caption &#8220;back to bed it is, wonder who they&#8217;re going to call up?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Robin Park Leisure Centre meeting is the penultimate Players Championship event of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Littler will miss Wednesday&#8217;s Players Championship event in Wigan after a traffic jam caused the world number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-151646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115458083631526142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}