{"id":32244,"date":"2018-03-14T02:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/14\/cautious-cj-stander-keeps-irelands-six-nations-champagne-on-ice\/"},"modified":"2018-03-14T02:00:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:00:38","slug":"cautious-cj-stander-keeps-irelands-six-nations-champagne-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=32244","title":{"rendered":"Cautious CJ Stander keeps Ireland\u2019s Six Nations champagne on ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Munster forward has missed out before\u2022 He expects to face \u201823 angry Englishmen\u2019CJ Stander could be forgiven for mislaying the plot on Ireland\u2019s history with the grand slam. In his excitement over being on the verge of the championship\u2019s top prize he reckoned this kind of opportunity comes along once every 40 years. In 2009, when Ireland won their last \u2013 and second \u2013 clean sweep Stander was still in South Africa, not yet 19, and a distance removed from even a Currie Cup debut with the Bulls.Last Saturday night, however, surrounded by team-mates and partners and watching the rest of the room wade into the post-match celebrations, the Munster No&nbsp;8 was struggling to come to terms with it all. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/mar\/14\/cj-stander-keeps-irelands-champagne-on-ice\" target=\"_blank\">Cautious CJ Stander keeps Ireland\u2019s Six Nations champagne on ice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Munster forward has missed out before\u2022 He expects to face \u201823 angry Englishmen\u2019CJ Stander could be forgiven for mislaying the plot on Ireland\u2019s history with the grand slam. In his excitement over being on the verge of the championship\u2019s top prize he reckoned this kind of opportunity comes along [&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-32244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32244","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=32244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}