{"id":26201,"date":"2026-02-23T12:30:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/is-influential-dupont-back-to-his-best\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:30:41","slug":"is-influential-dupont-back-to-his-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/is-influential-dupont-back-to-his-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Is &#039;influential&#039; Dupont back to his best?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Rugby Special&#8217;s John Barclay analyses the &#8220;huge influence&#8221; Antoine Dupont had in France&#8217;s 33-8 win over Italy, highlighting the scrum-half&#8217;s vision and toughness.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/videos\/c4ge25gxwdlo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rugby Special&#8217;s John Barclay analyses the &#8220;huge influence&#8221; Antoine Dupont had in France&#8217;s 33-8 win over Italy, highlighting the scrum-half&#8217;s vision and toughness. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26203,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26201\/revisions\/26203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}