{"id":2899,"date":"2018-08-31T09:50:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T08:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2018-08-31T09:50:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T08:50:31","slug":"christian-wade-rugby-ignoring-black-state-school-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2018\/08\/31\/christian-wade-rugby-ignoring-black-state-school-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Wade: Rugby ignoring black state school kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/660\/cpsprodpb\/5481\/production\/_103233612_gettyimages-904578618.jpg\" alt=\"Christian Wade playing for Wasps\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">One of the most famous black players in the Premiership says rugby union isn&#8217;t doing enough to get ethnic minority children from state schools into the game.<\/p>\n<p>England and Wasps wing Christian Wade says the sport still suffers from a &#8220;white, public school&#8221; image.<\/p>\n<p>He believes that big clubs are ignoring a large pool of untapped talent.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/newsbeat-45359123#\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most famous black players in the Premiership says rugby union isn&#8217;t doing enough to get ethnic minority children from state schools into the game. England and Wasps wing Christian Wade says the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-ethnicity","category-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}