{"id":96031,"date":"2026-03-08T03:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/perennial-dark-horses-really-why-world-keeps-forgetting-nzs-world-cup-pedigree\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T03:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:39:00","slug":"perennial-dark-horses-really-why-world-keeps-forgetting-nzs-world-cup-pedigree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/perennial-dark-horses-really-why-world-keeps-forgetting-nzs-world-cup-pedigree\/","title":{"rendered":"Perennial dark horses, really? Why world keeps forgetting NZ\u2019s World Cup pedigree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine ODI World Cup semi-finals. Two finals. Five T20 World Cup semi-finals and now a second final on Sunday. New Zealand\u2019s record in big-ticket tournaments is anything but accidental, yet they continue to be casually described as cricket\u2019s perennial dark horses.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine ODI World Cup semi-finals. Two finals. Five T20 World Cup semi-finals and now a second final on Sunday. New Zealand\u2019s record in big-ticket tournaments is anything but accidental, yet they continue to be casually described as cricket\u2019s perennial dark horses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":96032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}