{"id":351323,"date":"2025-08-17T09:32:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351323\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T09:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:32:41","slug":"pat-lam-louis-rees-zammit-is-chasing-glory-with-bristol-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351323\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Lam: Louis Rees-Zammit is chasing glory with Bristol Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Lam insists Louis Rees-Zammit\u2019s move to Bristol for the new season is purely about rugby not money.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old British and Irish Lion, who has won 32 caps for Wales, has returned to rugby union after 20 months away trying to break into American football.<br \/>According to Bears director of rugby Lam, Rees-Zammit had a number of club\u2019s chasing his signature with some offering more lucrative deals than he has received at Ashton Gate.<br \/>\u201cLouis is a world-class player, and we\u2019re thrilled to welcome him back to rugby union and to the Bears this season. He could have gone anywhere for lots of m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pat Lam insists Louis Rees-Zammit\u2019s move to Bristol for the new season is purely about rugby not money.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,21571,748,8924,393,5014,4884,18673,47465,2466,32687,6875,11653,12070,16,15,1764,1514],"class_list":{"0":"post-351323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-bears","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-bulls","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-gloucester","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-leicester","16":"tag-louis-rees-zammit","17":"tag-newcastle","18":"tag-pat-lam","19":"tag-premiership","20":"tag-premium","21":"tag-saracens","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-wales","25":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115043417648917460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351323","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=351323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}