{"id":981118,"date":"2026-05-24T03:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/981118\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T03:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:30:15","slug":"hastings-one-of-scotlands-finest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/981118\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastings, one of Scotland\u2019s finest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u25a0By SAM JACKSON <\/p>\n<p>Single-minded: Scott Hastings earned 65 caps <\/p>\n<p>INDUCTED into the Scottish Rugby Hall of Fame last year, Scott Hastings will be remembered as one of Scotland\u2019s finest ever players.<br \/>Hastings passed away last Sunday morning at the age of 61. In 2022 Hastings revealed he had been diagnosed with cancer, receiving treatment for non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma, which could not be cured.<br \/>A statement from Hastings\u2019 son Corey and daughter Kerry-Anne read: \u201cWe are saddened to inform you that Scott passed away peacefully surrounded by family on the morning &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u25a0By SAM JACKSON Single-minded: Scott Hastings earned 65 caps INDUCTED into the Scottish Rugby Hall of Fame last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":981119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5009],"tags":[186,167378,748,5313,12422,1102,393,4884,93212,14097,19910,11653,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-981118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scotland","tag-australia","tag-brendan-gallagher","tag-britain","tag-british-and-irish-lions","tag-club-rugby","tag-edinburgh","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-gregor-townsend","tag-jeremy-guscott","tag-lions","tag-premium","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116627441370652314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981118","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=981118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/981119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}