{"id":26357,"date":"2018-02-01T02:48:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T01:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/01\/russia-world-cup-could-be-ruined-due-to-locusts-on-the-pitch-officials-fear\/"},"modified":"2018-02-01T02:48:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T01:48:51","slug":"russia-world-cup-could-be-ruined-due-to-locusts-on-the-pitch-officials-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=26357","title":{"rendered":"Russia World Cup could be ruined due to locusts on the pitch, officials fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swarms could attack green grass and cause a \u2018global scandal\u2019, says agriculture ministry officialSwarms of locusts pose a threat to Russia\u2019s World Cup because they could attack pitches, causing a \u201cglobal scandal\u201c, an agriculture ministry official said on Wednesday.President Vladimir Putin is hoping to use the the World Cup from 14 June to 15 July to showcase his country as a superpower at a time of frayed relations with the west over Syria and Ukraine. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2018\/feb\/01\/russia-world-cup-locusts-pitch-damage-officials-fear\" target=\"_blank\">Russia World Cup could be ruined due to locusts on the pitch, officials fear<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swarms could attack green grass and cause a \u2018global scandal\u2019, says agriculture ministry officialSwarms of locusts pose a threat to Russia\u2019s World Cup because they could attack pitches, causing a \u201cglobal scandal\u201c, an agriculture ministry official said on Wednesday.President Vladimir Putin is hoping to use the the World Cup from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}