{"id":49000,"date":"2022-09-09T15:04:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T11:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=49000"},"modified":"2022-09-09T15:04:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T11:04:14","slug":"premier-league-postpones-weekend-fixtures-following-death-of-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2022\/09\/09\/premier-league-postpones-weekend-fixtures-following-death-of-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League postpones weekend fixtures following death of Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\u00a0Premier League\u00a0and\u00a0EFL\u00a0cancelled their fixtures this weekend as professional football in England will be postponed as a mark of respect following the death of\u00a0Queen Elizabeth II\u00a0on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the UK enters a period of national mourning,\u00a0other sports will also be making a decision\u00a0as to whether they will postpone their events this weekend and moving forward. Decisions regarding further postponements in the calendar are set to be determined following consideration of official mourning guidance, set to be issued by the Cabinet Office, but it is understood it will be left to individual sports event organisers to decide how to proceed &#8211; with postponements not being mandatory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Independent <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Premier League\u00a0and\u00a0EFL\u00a0cancelled their fixtures this weekend as professional football in England will be postponed as a mark of respect following the death of\u00a0Queen Elizabeth II\u00a0on Thursday. As the UK enters a period of national mourning,\u00a0other sports will also be making a decision\u00a0as to whether they will postpone their events this weekend and moving forward. Decisions &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49002,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49000\/revisions\/49002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}