{"id":2484,"date":"2015-04-08T20:13:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T10:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2015-04-08T20:15:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T10:45:01","slug":"unsuccessful-tries-and-eventual-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/?p=2484","title":{"rendered":"Unsuccessful tries and eventual conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singular recollections of rugby<br \/>\nin New Zealand in the 1960s<\/p>\n<p>by Murray Bramwell<\/p>\n<p>I think the year must have been 1958. It is Palmerston North, a large-ish town in New Zealand\u2019s North Island. I am at a school like many, all up and down the country. Hokowhitu Primary School, with maybe four hundred other kids \u2013 boys with fair-isle jumpers and freckles and ringworm haircuts, the girls in plaits and white ankle socks, the teachers in tweed with pipes and brown brogue shoes. It is a school assembly and the deputy head is winding his way through a long list of notices and dire warnings, class information and sports results \u2013 and then I hear my name mentioned. My name is never mentioned. I am a pale, nondescript kid, shorter than most, always in the front row of the school photo. The word for me, made popular by Charles Atlas body-building courses of the day, was puny.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from pdf file: <a href=\"http:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CacklerNZRugby-MB-1.pdf\">Click here to continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singular recollections of rugby in New Zealand in the 1960s by Murray Bramwell I think the year must have been 1958. It is Palmerston North, a large-ish town in New Zealand\u2019s North Island. I am at a school like many, all up and down the country. Hokowhitu Primary School, with maybe four hundred other kids \u2013 boys with fair-isle jumpers and freckles and ringworm haircuts, the girls in plaits and white ankle socks, the teachers in tweed with pipes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pdf-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}