{"id":9984,"date":"2012-04-17T04:19:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T02:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/rugby-james-retires-from-international-rugby\/"},"modified":"2012-04-17T04:19:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T02:19:26","slug":"rugby-james-retires-from-international-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-james-retires-from-international-rugby\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-James retires from international rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, April 16<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Butch James, the flyhalf<br \/>\nin the South Africa team who won the 2007 World Cup, announced<br \/>\nhis retirement from international rugby on Monday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>James, 33, played 42 tests including 37 at flyhalf. He is<br \/>\nthe most-capped flyhalf in Springbok history.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had a great career playing for South Africa, the<br \/>\nSharks, Bath and the Lions, but I&#8217;m not getting any younger and<br \/>\nI knew this was the right decision to make, even though it was<br \/>\nvery difficult,&#8221; James said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Jason Humphries; Editing by John Mehaffey)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, April 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Butch James, the flyhalf in the South Africa team who won the 2007 World Cup, announced his retirement from international rugby on Monday. James, 33, played 42 tests including 37 at flyhalf. He is the most-capped flyhalf in Springbok history. &#8220;I&#8217;ve had a great career playing for South Africa, the [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"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\/9984","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=9984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}