{"id":54945,"date":"2026-07-04T09:41:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/54945\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:41:46","slug":"world-cup-sickies-expensive-weddings-and-guinea-pig-for-lunch-the-weekend-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/54945\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup sickies, expensive weddings &#8211; and guinea pig for lunch? | The Weekend T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"World Cup sickies, expensive weddings - and guinea pig for lunch? | The Weekend T\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sAI-OK7qqIE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWorld Cup sickies, expensive weddings &#8211; and guinea pig for lunch? | The Weekend T<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn the latest episode of the Weekend T, Telegraph Opinion writers Poppy Coburn and Michael Deacon take a look at some comical and controversial news stories from the week.<\/p>\n<p>They discuss whether World Cup fans will be calling-in sick en masse on Monday morning after England vs Mexico, whether it\u2019s OK to turn down a wedding invite because of the cost and the story of the couple who have been allowed to breed guinea pigs to eat.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Subscribe to The Telegraph: https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/subscription\/store\/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_dailytpodcast<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Get the latest headlines: https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_dailytpodcast<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Sign up to The Telegraph&#8217;s free new daily newsletter, From the Editor, bringing you the latest news, features and analysis from the Telegraph newsroom: https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/secure\/newsletter\/from-the-editor\/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_dailytpodcast<\/p>\n<p>#WeekendT #TelegraphOpinion #Telegraph #PoppyCoburn #MichaelDeacon #Podcast #NewsPodcast #WeeklyRoundup #WorldCup #EnglandVsMexico #ThreeLions #FootballFans #MondaySickie #WeddingEtiquette #WeddingCosts #GuineaPigs #BizarreNews #ViralStories #CurrentAffairs #UKNews #Culture #Opinion #TrendingNow #ComedyNews #WeekendListening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Cup sickies, expensive weddings &#8211; and guinea pig for lunch? | The Weekend T In the latest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[49217,49219,49212,49218,49221,2295,49210,49215,25150,39307,41233,49211,31,338,339,44141,41232,340,41231,1745,337,49220,341,49208,49216,49213,49214,41230,49209,2236,235],"class_list":["post-54945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-telegraph","tag-bizarre-stories","tag-british-commentary","tag-calling-in-sick","tag-comedy-news","tag-culture-debate","tag-current-affairs","tag-england-vs-mexico","tag-expensive-weddings","tag-football-fans","tag-guinea-pigs","tag-michael-deacon","tag-monday-sickies","tag-news","tag-news-publisher","tag-newspaper","tag-opinion-podcast","tag-poppy-coburn","tag-telegraph","tag-telegraph-opinion","tag-telegraph-podcast","tag-the-telegraph","tag-trending-news","tag-uk-news","tag-uk-news-podcast","tag-unusual-news","tag-wedding-costs","tag-wedding-etiquette","tag-weekend-t","tag-weekly-news-roundup","tag-world-cup","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}