{"id":3269,"date":"2016-07-15T18:03:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T16:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=3269"},"modified":"2016-07-15T18:03:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T16:03:56","slug":"stormers-will-receive-africa-1-conference-trophy-after-kings-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/rugby\/stormers-will-receive-africa-1-conference-trophy-after-kings-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormers will receive Africa 1 Conference trophy after Kings clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite not hitting the headlines like their inland countrymen the Lions, the Stormers will receive the Africa 1 Conference trophy after their Super Rugby clash with the Southern Kings at Newlands on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Stormers took an unassailable lead at the top of the Super Rugby Africa 1 conference log well ahead of their nearest rivals \u2013 the Bulls. Going into the final game of the regular season the Stormers have 46 points, while the Bulls have 37.<\/p>\n<p>Winning their two matches on the trot in Australia confirmed their status as one of the leading teams in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Stormers have won three of the last five South African conferences before this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Cape outfit will host a New Zealand team at Newlands in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport \u2013 <a title=\"Rugby\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/category\/rugby\/\">Rugby<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite not hitting the headlines like their inland countrymen the Lions, the Stormers will receive the Africa 1 Conference trophy after their Super Rugby clash with the Southern Kings at Newlands on Saturday. The Stormers took an unassailable lead at the top of the Super Rugby Africa 1 conference log well ahead of their nearest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[1212,1649,1213,648,346,663,30,1440,1210,1211,1439,1651,319,1209,114,297,1650,283],"class_list":["post-3269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-africa","tag-africa-1-conference-trophy","tag-africa-news","tag-australia","tag-new-zealand","tag-newlands","tag-news","tag-s-a-today","tag-sa","tag-sa-news","tag-sa-today","tag-sat","tag-south-africa","tag-south-africa-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-african","tag-southern-kings","tag-super-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}