{"id":2731,"date":"2011-10-21T11:57:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T23:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2011-10-21T11:57:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T23:57:33","slug":"news-brief-new-zealands-all-blacks-in-the-rwc-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/news-brief-new-zealands-all-blacks-in-the-rwc-final\/","title":{"rendered":"News Brief: New Zealand\u2019s All Blacks in the RWC final!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t seem like six weeks ago that the team at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.auip.com\/\">AUIP<\/a>\u00a0were eagerly anticipating the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/09\/news-brief-2012-rugby-world-cup-kicks-off\/\">Rugby World Cup opening ceremony<\/a>\u00a0and the beginning of the biggest competition ever to be held in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/auip.com\/programs\/newzealand.php\/\">New Zealand<\/a>. Now here we are approaching finals weekend and our very own\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allblacks.com\/\">All Blacks<\/a>\u00a0are in the final against our old rugby foes, France!<\/p>\n<p>Since securing the spot in the final by beating Australia 20 \u2013 6 in the semi final last Sunday the nation has been gripped with excitement and anticipation of this week\u2019s game. There are All Blacks and New Zealand flags on cars, houses, shops and lampposts. AUIP\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.auip.com\/about\/crawford.php\">Sheena<\/a>\u00a0even spotted one on a tree deep within\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.govt.nz\/parks-and-recreation\/national-parks\/arthurs-pass\/\">Arthurs Pass National Park<\/a>! BBQ\u2019s (cook outs) and parties are being planned, big screens are going up in bars and pubs all over the country for fans to watch the game and black face paint and All Blacks apparel have been selling out in shops this week. Check out the video below\u00a0of a Flash Mob performing the Haka as a\u00a0good-luck\u00a0gesture to the All Blacks from the dizzying height of the 192-metre high Sky Tower in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>The game starts at 9:00 p.m. on Sunday night New Zealand time but rugby fans in America can watch it live on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.universalsports.com\/\">Universal Sports<\/a>\u00a0at 3:45 a.m. ET Sunday morning. If you can\u2019t bring yourself to get out of bed that early, NBC have delayed coverage at 3:00 p.m. ET Sunday afternoon. Are you planning an All Blacks\/New Zealand themed party?<\/p>\n<p>Go the All Blacks!<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PMRGk0W4vVY]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t seem like six weeks ago that the team at\u00a0AUIP\u00a0were eagerly anticipating the\u00a0Rugby World Cup opening ceremony\u00a0and the beginning of the biggest competition ever to be held in\u00a0New Zealand. Now here we are approaching finals weekend and our very own\u00a0All Blacks\u00a0are in the final against our old rugby foes, France! Since securing the spot in the final by beating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-zealand","category-news-brief"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}