{"id":48275,"date":"2018-07-05T15:45:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T13:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/07\/05\/talented-and-resilient-the-wild-boars-footballers-trapped-in-thai-cave\/"},"modified":"2018-07-05T15:45:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T13:45:45","slug":"talented-and-resilient-the-wild-boars-footballers-trapped-in-thai-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=48275","title":{"rendered":"Talented and resilient: the Wild Boars footballers trapped in Thai cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boys trapped underground include Chanin Wiboonrungrueng, 11, the youngest in the squad, and left-winger Adul Sam-on, 14, whose English skills have earned him admiration at homeWhen on Monday members of the Wild Boars football club spotted a light emerging from the watery depths that had confined them to a pitch-black chamber in Tham Luang cave in Thailand\u2019s Mae Sai district for nine days, they had no idea it was being carried by two British men. Unaware of the headlines and sympathy their plight had inspired around the world, the 12 boys and their coach assumed the divers were explorers.Adul Sam-on, 14, called out in English to ask the divers what day it was and tell them that he and his friends were hungry. His teammates, unable to follow the conversation, chattered \u201ceat, eat, eat\u201d with the little English they had. Adul assured his friends: \u201cI already told them.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jul\/05\/talented-and-resilient-the-wild-boars-footballers-trapped-in-thai-cave\" target=\"_blank\">Talented and resilient: the Wild Boars footballers trapped in Thai cave<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boys trapped underground include Chanin Wiboonrungrueng, 11, the youngest in the squad, and left-winger Adul Sam-on, 14, whose English skills have earned him admiration at homeWhen on Monday members of the Wild Boars football club spotted a light emerging from the watery depths that had confined them to a pitch-black [&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-48275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48275","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=48275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}