{"id":2434,"date":"2014-06-02T17:16:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T10:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2014-06-02T17:16:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T10:16:18","slug":"lions-pull-of-shock-victory-and-end-bulls-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/rugby\/lions-pull-of-shock-victory-and-end-bulls-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions pull of shock victory and end Bulls chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lions all but ended the Bulls chances of reaching the play offs when they beat the Pretoria side 32-21 in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>The victory ended a seven match losing streak for the Lions and a three match winning streak for the Bulls.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls missed the opportunity to get back into the play off places and remain in ninth place four points behind the lowest placed qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls have two matches remaining &#8211; against the Stormers and the Rebels and would need bonus point wins in both while also hoping that the Hurricanes and Highlanders don&#8217;t accumulate any further points.<\/p>\n<p>The result also makes the Sharks the South African Conference winners&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.superxv.com\/42721\/1\/lions-pull-off-shock-win-and-all-but-end-bulls-chances#.U4xNUihfYyc\" title=\"Read more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today \u2013 Sport \u2013 Rugby news \u2013 Lions vs Bulls <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lions all but ended the Bulls chances of reaching the play offs when they beat the Pretoria side 32-21 in Johannesburg. The victory ended a seven match losing streak for the Lions and a three match winning streak for the Bulls. The Bulls missed the opportunity to get back into the play off places [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[293,294,312,313,310,311,295,291,292,306,30,307,308,309,1268,305,285,286,114,120,296,314,80,188,280,281],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-bulls","tag-bulls-rugby","tag-highlanders","tag-highlanders-rugby","tag-hurricanes","tag-hurricanes-rugby","tag-johannesburg","tag-lions","tag-lions-rugby","tag-lions-vs-bulls","tag-news","tag-pretoria","tag-rebels","tag-rebels-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-news","tag-sharks","tag-sharks-rugby","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-south-african-conference","tag-south-african-conference-winners","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-stormers","tag-stormers-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}