{"id":27794,"date":"2026-04-03T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dr-congo-qualify-for-world-cup-amidst-pain-and-war-this-victory-makes-us-proud\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:24:10","slug":"dr-congo-qualify-for-world-cup-amidst-pain-and-war-this-victory-makes-us-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dr-congo-qualify-for-world-cup-amidst-pain-and-war-this-victory-makes-us-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo qualify for World Cup: &#039;Amidst pain and war, this victory makes us proud\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>DR Congo are back at the World Cup for the first time since 1974, with fans in Kinshasa celebrating the team&#8217;s 1-0 play-off win over Jamaica.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cvg0q1d9zddo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DR Congo are back at the World Cup for the first time since 1974, with fans in Kinshasa celebrating the team&#8217;s 1-0 play-off win over Jamaica. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27794","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=27794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27796,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27794\/revisions\/27796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}