{"id":40,"date":"2026-09-08T11:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/?p=40"},"modified":"2026-09-08T11:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:33:37","slug":"soweto-surge-puts-springboks-on-the-brink-of-rivalry-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Soweto Surge Puts Springboks on the Brink of Rivalry Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>The <u><strong>Springboks<\/strong><\/u> stand on the edge of a historic series victory<\/strong><\/strong> after pulling off a breath-taking 29-24 second-half comeback against the All Blacks. Playing in front of a roaring, capacity crowd of 87,976 fans at FNB Stadium in Soweto, the world champions flexed their trademark physical muscle to claim a <strong><strong>2-1 series lead<\/strong><\/strong> in the four-match <em>Rugby&#8217;s Greatest Rivalry<\/em> showdown. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/rugby-union\/news\/12321\/13582037\/south-africa-29-24-new-zealand-springboks-edge-thriller-to-take-2-1-series-lead-in-soweto\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/rugby-union\/news\/12321\/13582037\/south-africa-29-24-new-zealand-springboks-edge-thriller-to-take-2-1-series-lead-in-soweto\">2<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Jesse-Kriel-Springboks.jpeg.optimal.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Jesse-Kriel-Springboks.jpeg.optimal.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Jesse-Kriel-Springboks.jpeg.optimal-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Jesse-Kriel-Springboks.jpeg.optimal-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Jesse-Kriel-Springboks.jpeg.optimal-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Springboks stand on the edge of a historic series victory after pulling off a breath-taking 29-24 second-half comeback against the All Blacks. Playing in front of a roaring, capacity crowd of 87,976 fans at FNB Stadium in Soweto, the world champions flexed their trademark physical muscle to claim a 2-1 series lead in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}