{"id":1111616,"date":"2026-07-26T03:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1111616\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T03:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:38:12","slug":"the-king-of-spain-hoping-to-have-a-clear-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1111616\/","title":{"rendered":"The King of Spain hoping to have a clear run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KING Felipe VI\u2019s next World Cup gig will be rather different to the one he celebrated with his football team in New Jersey last Sunday. For a start, he won\u2019t find his way to the podium blocked by Donald Trump\u2019s reluctance to leave it.<br \/>An Olympian in his own right as a yachtsman at the 1992 Games, the monarch\u2019s love of football extends to rugby. Spain, of course, will be in Australia next year competing at their first RWC for almost 30 years, their qualification all the more welcome following disqualification from the last two global tournaments over player-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KING Felipe VI\u2019s next World Cup gig will be rather different to the one he celebrated with his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1111617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[10105,186,2000,299,11653,4151,12183,104,659,1514,7406],"class_list":["post-1111616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-argentina","tag-australia","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-premium","tag-rugby","tag-scrum","tag-spain","tag-usa","tag-world-cup","tag-world-rugby"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116984198367628815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1111617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}