{"id":1776,"date":"2022-06-23T10:50:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T22:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2022-06-23T10:50:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T22:50:43","slug":"arthur-jennings-first-fiji-born-to-wear-black-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1776","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Jennings first Fiji Born to wear Black Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Arthur Grahn Jennings<\/b> (born 15 June 1940) was a Fijian-born former politician and New Zealand rugby union\u00a0international. A lock\u00a0Jennings represented Bay of Plenty\u00a0at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks on\u00a0their 1967 tour of Britain ,France and Canada.He played six games for the All Blacks on that tour but did not appear in any test matches.<sup id=\"cite_ref-AB_profile_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>During the 1980s he served as a member of the House of Representatives\u00a0in Fiji.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1777\" src=\"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/E9DD667A-F248-4A72-BA1B-39BC47E59F1C-227x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/E9DD667A-F248-4A72-BA1B-39BC47E59F1C-227x300.jpeg 227w, https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/E9DD667A-F248-4A72-BA1B-39BC47E59F1C-776x1024.jpeg 776w, https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/E9DD667A-F248-4A72-BA1B-39BC47E59F1C-768x1014.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/E9DD667A-F248-4A72-BA1B-39BC47E59F1C-1164x1536.jpeg 1164w, https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/E9DD667A-F248-4A72-BA1B-39BC47E59F1C-1552x2048.jpeg 1552w, https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/E9DD667A-F248-4A72-BA1B-39BC47E59F1C-600x792.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/E9DD667A-F248-4A72-BA1B-39BC47E59F1C.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Grahn Jennings (born 15 June 1940) was a Fijian-born former politician and New Zealand rugby union\u00a0international. A lock\u00a0Jennings represented Bay of Plenty\u00a0at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks on\u00a0their 1967 tour of Britain ,France and Canada.He played six games for the All Blacks on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1781,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}