{"id":7739,"date":"2024-12-05T20:05:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T20:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ilona-maher-new-bristol-bears-signing-and-usa-star-says-rugby-gives-players-freedom-to-express-themselves\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T20:05:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T20:05:30","slug":"ilona-maher-new-bristol-bears-signing-and-usa-star-says-rugby-gives-players-freedom-to-express-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ilona-maher-new-bristol-bears-signing-and-usa-star-says-rugby-gives-players-freedom-to-express-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilona Maher: New Bristol Bears signing and USA star says rugby gives players freedom to express themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to the BBC Radio 5 Live Rugby Union Weekly podcast, USA sevens player and social media star Ilona Maher says the sport &#8220;allows you to express yourself in the fullest way possible&#8221;. After signing with Bristol Bears for three months, Maher discusses her reasons for getting into rugby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Listen to the Rugby Union Weekly Podcast on BBC Sounds.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c0j1wzge5d0o\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">&#8216;She&#8217;s going to be devastating&#8217; &#8211; Bristol coach on Maher<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/videos\/c0lgpked6pno\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to the BBC Radio 5 Live Rugby Union Weekly podcast, USA sevens player and social media star Ilona Maher says the sport &#8220;allows you to express yourself in the fullest way possible&#8221;. After signing with Bristol Bears for three months, Maher discusses her reasons for getting into rugby. Listen to the Rugby Union Weekly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7739","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\/7739","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=7739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7741,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739\/revisions\/7741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}