{"id":133719,"date":"2020-07-20T11:44:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T02:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=133719&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-07-20T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T02:44:53","slug":"fiji-native-joins-fukuoka-rugby-team","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fiji-native-joins-fukuoka-rugby-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji-native Joins Fukuoka Rugby Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka-based female rugby team, Nanaimo Prism, welcomes Mateitoga Bogidrau Mainadevi from Fiji. The 36-year old athlete belonged to Saitama Driving School as a rugby player and played at the15-a-side rugby 2017 World Cup Games. Leveraging her physical strength, the forward also aspires to join Japan\u2019s national rugby-7s team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=177659873738461&#038;id=112124976958618\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nanaimo Prism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Fiji-native-Joins-Fukuoka-Rugby-2.jpg?resize=960%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-133722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Fiji-native-Joins-Fukuoka-Rugby-2.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Fiji-native-Joins-Fukuoka-Rugby-2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Fiji-native-Joins-Fukuoka-Rugby-2.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Catch all of our Kyushu &#038; Fukuoka local news reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka-based female rugby team, Nanaimo Prism, welcomes Mateitoga Bogidrau Mainadevi from Fiji. The 36-year old athlete belonged to Saitama Driving School as a rugby player and played at the15-a-side rugby 2017 World Cup Games. Leveraging her physical&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29452,"featured_media":133722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-133719","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-sports","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/133719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}