{"id":35325,"date":"2025-07-31T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T08:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35325\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T08:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T08:03:09","slug":"rugby-yarnbombing-brings-northamptonshire-wi-members-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35325\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby yarnbombing brings Northamptonshire WI members together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">WI members have worked on the display since last August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The display was commissioned with support from England Rugby and West Northamptonshire Council, and has grown in scale since it was first proposed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lynne Abraham, of East Hunsbury WI, said: &#8221; We&#8217;re the only town out of all the places the games are taking place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We want the world to see Northampton on the map. I&#8217;m quite emotional about it\u2026 [the display] makes me so proud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carolyn Stone, of Hunsbury Hill WI, said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to meet lots of ladies from other WIs through this project&#8230; It was worth doing to show what the WI is capable of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup will begin on 22 August, when hosts England face the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Franklin&#8217;s Gardens is one of eight venues across England hosting matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WI members have worked on the display since last August. The display was commissioned with support from England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-35325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}