{"id":7691,"date":"2018-06-27T12:03:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7691"},"modified":"2018-06-27T12:03:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:03:18","slug":"youthful-looks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7691\/","title":{"rendered":"Youthful Looks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m no fan of Australia&#8217;s David Pocock, but this is pretty cool:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In 2005 on the Australian Schoolboys tour of UK and Ireland we were billeted out with families in Limerick. The family I was billeted with: the Murrays. I don&#8217;t think <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConorMurray_9?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ConorMurray_9<\/a> or I were thinking we&#8217;d go on to face each other in test rugby. Great to catch up after the game. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MRF9BRsQY0\">pic.twitter.com\/MRF9BRsQY0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Pocock (@pocockdavid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pocockdavid\/status\/1010815454892326912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But what really amused me was this comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">That\u2019s what being an LGBT Ally does for you. Folau will look 87 by next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robyn (@RobynJade0) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobynJade0\/status\/1011157280140742659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is meant as a dig at Israel Folau for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7555\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-gay remarks<\/a>. So how&#8217;s old Izzy looking these days?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Israel-Folau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7692\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Israel-Folau.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1447\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Israel-Folau.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Israel-Folau-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Israel-Folau-768x543.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Israel-Folau-1024x724.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Israel-Folau-425x300.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh. That link between homophobia and ugliness is looking a little tenuous, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m no fan of Australia&#8217;s David Pocock, but this is pretty cool: In 2005 on the Australian Schoolboys tour of UK and Ireland we were billeted out with families in Limerick. The family I was billeted with: the Murrays. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7691\/\">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\/7691"}],"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=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7693,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions\/7693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}