{"id":2282,"date":"2010-06-10T10:38:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T09:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\/blog\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2023-06-22T10:08:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T09:08:29","slug":"ireland-to-compete-in-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/ireland-to-compete-in-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland to compete in the World Cup?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YES!! It&#8217;s true! \u00a0Ireland will be competing in the World Cup this summer! \u00a0Well, not exactly. \u00a0The World Cup in South Africa won&#8217;t be seeing any Irish team, but \u00a0the <strong>World Wife Carrying Championships<\/strong> in Finland sure will!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2010\/06\/wife_carrying.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2283\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2010\/06\/wife_carrying.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We participated last year and won 3rd place in the relay race and &#8220;Most Entertaining Couple&#8221; in the main event, so naturally we are going back again this year to defend our titles!!<\/p>\n<p>We are looking for sponsors to make this voyage to Finland to represent our country in the prestigious sport of &#8220;Wife Carrying&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MfUaZbX_vq4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in sponsoring the Irish Wife Carrying Team, then please drop me an email ciara[at]weddingdates[dot]ie or via our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/weddingdates\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YES!! It&#8217;s true! \u00a0Ireland will be competing in the World Cup this summer! \u00a0Well, not exactly. \u00a0The World Cup in South Africa won&#8217;t be seeing any Irish team, but \u00a0the World Wife Carrying Championships in Finland sure will!! We participated last year and won 3rd place in the relay race and &#8220;Most Entertaining Couple&#8221; in the main event, so naturally we are going back again this year to defend our titles!! We are looking for sponsors to make this voyage [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weddingdates-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84261,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/84261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}