{"id":178243,"date":"2025-12-06T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178243\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:29:08","slug":"champions-cup-munster-open-campaign-against-bath-at-recreation-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178243\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions Cup: Munster open campaign against Bath at Recreation Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devastating from the Premiership champions at the Rec<br \/>&#8216;Simply devastating stuff from English champions Bath. Johann van Graan&#8217;s side have been superior to Munster in every area, especially making the most of the conditions with their kick-chase as they&#8217;ve dominated the aerial battles. Munster&#8217;s disastrous start at the lineout did damage, but they&#8217;ve stabilised their set-piece. Craig Casey&#8217;s try gives them a glimmer of hope, but at 35-14 it&#8217;s a long way back.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devastating from the Premiership champions at the Rec&#8216;Simply devastating stuff from English champions Bath. Johann van Graan&#8217;s side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,11287,16490,11897,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-178243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-leinster-rugby","10":"tag-live-blogs","11":"tag-munster-rugby","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}