{"id":1676707,"date":"2022-06-09T15:13:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T19:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1676707"},"modified":"2022-06-09T15:13:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T19:13:22","slug":"pomp-and-fractures-defectors-open-saudi-funded-golf-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1676707","title":{"rendered":"Pomp and fractures: Defectors open Saudi-funded golf series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/pomp-and-fractures-defectors-open-saudi-funded-golf-series\/20322862\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/golf\/pga\/2022\/06\/09\/20322723\/media_713953112b504ee780f56e498b931bae-DMID1-5v61wt8sj-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Britain_Golf_LIV_Invitational_00956\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>At a distance it looked like a military flypast and Grenadier Guards trumpeting in a royal-style occasion. Only it wasn&#8217;t an extension of Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s Jubilee celebrations but the launch of the Saudi-funded golf breakaway, attempting to bring a sense of faux regal pageantry to the rebellion splitting the sport. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/pomp-and-fractures-defectors-open-saudi-funded-golf-series\/20322862\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/pomp-and-fractures-defectors-open-saudi-funded-golf-series\/20322862\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Pomp and fractures: Defectors open Saudi-funded golf series\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a distance it looked like a military flypast and Grenadier Guards trumpeting in a royal-style occasion. Only it wasn&#8217;t an extension of Queen Elizabeth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1676707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}