{"id":18133,"date":"2025-04-14T02:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T02:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18133\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T02:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T02:45:11","slug":"the-baby-faced-assassin-who-has-his-sights-set-on-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18133\/","title":{"rendered":"The baby-faced assassin who has his sights set on England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Rees<\/p>\n<p>Fin Baxter went under the radar last season as he rose quickly up the front row ladder and he has learned how to deal with the extra attention he now demands.<br \/>Baxter only turned 23 a couple of months ago, but the loose-head prop has become a cornerstone of Harlequins\u2019 front row since Joe Marler retired and he appeared in every match of England\u2019s Six Nations campaign this year.<br \/>\u201cI was new to the scene last year and people did not know too much about me,\u201d said Baxter, who made his England debut against New Zealand last summer on the back of some big performances for Quins, not le&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Paul Rees Fin Baxter went under the radar last season as he rose quickly up the front&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,2383,393,36,4884,12074,678,12075,12076,704,11653,12070,4209,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-18133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-champions-cup","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-harlequins","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-joe-launchbury","16":"tag-joe-marler","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-premium","19":"tag-saracens","20":"tag-six-nations","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114334028564694683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18133","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=18133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}