{"id":54,"date":"2012-04-17T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/passportsnothallpasses.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/a-little-more-british-everyday\/"},"modified":"2017-03-16T09:06:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T09:06:08","slug":"a-little-more-british-everyday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/passportsnothallpasses.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/a-little-more-british-everyday\/","title":{"rendered":"A little more British everyday&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-UnFx8k7ZSNs\/T5ADT8_mT4I\/AAAAAAAAAdU\/NdiqZZMs4eU\/s1600\/IMG_2960.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-UnFx8k7ZSNs\/T5ADT8_mT4I\/AAAAAAAAAdU\/NdiqZZMs4eU\/s320\/IMG_2960.JPG?w=980\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733085966967918466\" \/><\/a><br \/>We had a great weekend.  We attended our first rugby match.  Let me just say: wow!<\/p>\n<p>It was an absolute blast.  Keali was glued to it!  She loved watching the players tackle and get so rough with each other.  Our aggressive kid on the other hand could not have cared less.  Instead, he opted to play iPad throughout most of the game.  We attended a league game that is a level or two below a professional, i.e. one level below NFL in rugby talk&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ynJ1Wwcf0pY\/T5ADUrQgetI\/AAAAAAAAAdc\/-Tkqn7z4k00\/s1600\/IMG_2968.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ynJ1Wwcf0pY\/T5ADUrQgetI\/AAAAAAAAAdc\/-Tkqn7z4k00\/s320\/IMG_2968.JPG?w=980\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733085979386870482\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The action was literally feet away from us.  The power and the hits of these guys without any padding was amazing.  It was so fun and we hope to attend the next match in the fields near our house.  Loooooving the sports here.  (Cricket season starts next weekend.  *****snooooooozzzzzzeeeee****)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-U2TRJ4N9T-M\/T5ADVPqyHWI\/AAAAAAAAAdo\/RaxHjE4WQEs\/s1600\/IMG_2950.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-U2TRJ4N9T-M\/T5ADVPqyHWI\/AAAAAAAAAdo\/RaxHjE4WQEs\/s320\/IMG_2950.JPG?w=980\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733085989160754530\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quick video of the highlights&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"vp1gX5fs\" width=\"432\" height=\"240\" class><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.animoto.com\/swf\/w.swf?w=swf\/vp1&#038;e=1334842709&#038;f=gX5fsheypsvrN71ANiBqgA&#038;d=97&#038;m=a&#038;r=360p&#038;volume=100&#038;start_res=360p&#038;i=m&#038;options=\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great weekend. We attended our first rugby match. Let me just say: wow! It was an absolute blast. Keali was glued to it! She loved watching the players tackle and get so rough with each other. Our aggressive kid on the other hand could not have cared less. Instead, he opted to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/passportsnothallpasses.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/a-little-more-british-everyday\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-london","7":"category-micha","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8k10v-S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1331,"url":"http:\/\/passportsnothallpasses.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/05\/beautiful-brisbane\/","url_meta":{"origin":54,"position":0},"title":"Beautiful Brisbane","author":"Micha Hooper","date":"July 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"After our stop in Cairns, we headed on farther south to Brisbane. 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