{"id":242030,"date":"2025-07-06T06:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T06:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/242030\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T06:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T06:35:11","slug":"dark-day-for-wales-in-land-of-rising-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/242030\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark day for Wales in land of rising sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PETER JACKSON<br \/>THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW <\/p>\n<p>Triumph: Seungsin Lee kicks the ball out to seal victory yesterday<br \/>PICTURE: Getty Images <\/p>\n<p>FOR more than an hour yesterday in a land renowned for its courtesy, Japan overdid the welcome bit to such an extent that Wales had nothing to beat. For all that time, the bungling hosts barely missed a trick to ensure that the hapless visitors would avoid the ultimate indignity of surpassing the longest losing run endured by any major rugby nation, of whom Wales used to be one.<br \/>Eddie Jones looked down from a vantage point in the shade, steam coming o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PETER JACKSONTHE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Triumph: Seungsin Lee kicks the ball out to seal victory yesterdayPICTURE:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[186,748,74021,393,36,4884,2199,2122,704,37766,11653,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-242030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eddie-jones","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-italy","15":"tag-japan","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-peter-jackson","18":"tag-premium","19":"tag-scotland","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114804904857339994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242030","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=242030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}