{"id":7450,"date":"2018-05-21T13:05:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T11:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7450"},"modified":"2018-05-21T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T11:05:06","slug":"drought-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7450\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought Ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/5152\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3040\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>) about the parlous state of Australian rugby union. On Saturday the Waratahs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newshub.co.nz\/home\/sport\/2018\/05\/super-rugby-highlanders-fall-to-waratahs-to-end-kiwi-win-streak.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beat<\/a> the Highlanders 41-12 ending a run of 40 straight defeats for Australian teams against New Zealand opposition. The last time they secured a win over their trans-Tasman rivals was in May 2016, almost 2 years ago. At the international level, Australia haven&#8217;t won the Bledisloe Cup since <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bledisloe_Cup#Results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2002<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With France in their second or third generation of consistently underperforming and England having a lousy Six Nations championship in 2018, the Rugby World Cup is in danger of becoming as much a farce as it&#8217;s rugby league equivalent if this keeps up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before (here and here) about the parlous state of Australian rugby union. On Saturday the Waratahs beat the Highlanders 41-12 ending a run of 40 straight defeats for Australian teams against New Zealand opposition. The last time they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7450\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7451,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450\/revisions\/7451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}