{"id":186819,"date":"2021-04-21T23:08:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T21:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-news-sam-warburton-backs-maro-itoje-to-captain-lions-on-south-africa-tour\/"},"modified":"2021-04-21T23:08:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T21:08:25","slug":"sa-news-sam-warburton-backs-maro-itoje-to-captain-lions-on-south-africa-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-news-sam-warburton-backs-maro-itoje-to-captain-lions-on-south-africa-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"SA News: Sam Warburton backs Maro Itoje to captain Lions on South Africa tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=2EB936A05E9F468EAFE78E0A96DD0F0C&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.msn.com%2fen-au%2fnews%2fother%2fsam-warburton-backs-maro-itoje-to-captain-lions-on-south-africa-tour%2far-BB1fU45F&#038;c=14578049700131383052&#038;mkt=en-gb\">Sam Warburton backs Maro Itoje to captain Lions on South Africa tour<\/a>: Sam Warburton has backed Maro Itoje to follow in his footsteps and captain the British &#038; Irish Lions this summer in South Africa. Alun Wyn Jones is the favourite for the role but his compatriot &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=2EB936A05E9F468EAFE78E0A96DD0F0C&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.msn.com%2fen-au%2fnews%2fother%2fsam-warburton-backs-maro-itoje-to-captain-lions-on-south-africa-tour%2far-BB1fU45F&#038;c=14578049700131383052&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=2EB936A05E9F468EAFE78E0A96DD0F0C&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.theguardian.com%2fworld%2flive%2f2021%2fapr%2f21%2fcoronavirus-live-news-india-reports-over-200000-cases-for-seventh-straight-day-japan-mulls-new-restrictions%3fpage%3dwith%3ablock-60807c3c8f08080a7ae67d2e&#038;c=1898957674691780152&#038;mkt=en-gb\">Coronavirus live news: Turkey sees record death toll; surge testing in Birmingham for South Africa variant<\/a>: Turkey currently ranks fourth globally in daily cases; England\u2019s health department says contacts of confirmed case have been identified &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=2EB936A05E9F468EAFE78E0A96DD0F0C&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.theguardian.com%2fworld%2flive%2f2021%2fapr%2f21%2fcoronavirus-live-news-india-reports-over-200000-cases-for-seventh-straight-day-japan-mulls-new-restrictions%3fpage%3dwith%3ablock-60807c3c8f08080a7ae67d2e&#038;c=1898957674691780152&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Warburton backs Maro Itoje to captain Lions on South Africa tour: Sam Warburton has backed Maro Itoje to follow in his footsteps and captain the British &#038; Irish Lions this summer in South Africa. Alun Wyn Jones is the favourite for the role but his compatriot &#8230; Source: &#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews Coronavirus live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[428,3423,3785,40545,1359,40544,830,3576,3182,41078],"class_list":{"0":"post-186819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-backs","9":"tag-captain","10":"tag-itoje","11":"tag-lions","12":"tag-maro","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-south","15":"tag-tour","16":"tag-warburton","17":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}