{"id":981099,"date":"2026-05-24T03:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/981099\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T03:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:17:15","slug":"6000-mile-trip-wont-bother-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/981099\/","title":{"rendered":"6,000-mile trip won\u2019t bother us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE URC reaches knock-out phase next weekend with Cardiff facing the journey to Cape Town to take on the Stormers.<br \/>Cardiff will fly on Tuesday and land in South Africa a few days before the match. But flanker Dan Thomas says the prospect of sitting in economy class for the 6,000-mile flight will not be used an excuse.<br \/>\u201cWe\u2019ve all travelled enough now to know what\u2019s happening and what\u2019s coming,\u201d Thomas, right, told Scrum V. \u201cThere is no excuse when it comes to travel or the body being sore. As long as your mentality is up there, your body will &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE URC reaches knock-out phase next weekend with Cardiff facing the journey to Cape Town to take on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":981100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[8924,12502,19909,918,678,4306,19910,12760,11653,2196,19911,49,978,659],"class_list":["post-981099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-bulls","tag-cardiff","tag-connacht","tag-glasgow","tag-ireland","tag-leinster","tag-lions","tag-munster","tag-premium","tag-south-africa","tag-stormers","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116627390255227259","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981099","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=981099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/981100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}