{"id":454212,"date":"2023-08-09T06:41:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T10:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=454212"},"modified":"2023-08-09T07:54:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T11:54:48","slug":"tom-stewart-takes-irelands-squad-call-up-as-a-learning-exercise","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/tom-stewart-takes-irelands-squad-call-up-as-a-learning-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Stewart takes Ireland&#8217;s squad call-up as a &#8216;learning exercise&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ulster hooker Tom Stewart says that his main objective during his participation in Ireland&#8217;s World Cup build-up and preparations is to use it as a learning exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old was named in a 42-man squad for a summer training camp and three World Cup friendly matches. Stewart even made his debut as a substitute during the second half of Saturday&#8217;s 33-17 win over Italy in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just here to learn really. It was a bit of a surprise for me to even be here for the summer,&#8221; said Stewart. &#8220;I was delighted I got selected. For many young boys across Ireland watching rugby the dream is to one day pull on the special green jersey and run out in front of the Aviva.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">And making an impact on your senior <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IrishRugby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@IrishRugby<\/a> debut\u2026 Tom Stewart \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9TqaC33Wwg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/9TqaC33Wwg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ulster Rugby (@UlsterRugby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UlsterRugby\/status\/1688120078770868224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact I got to do that on Saturday with a lot of good lads and under a bunch of great coaches, it was very special for me and it will always be with me. It will go down as one of my prouder moments playing rugby.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ulster hooker Tom Stewart says that his main objective during his participation in Ireland&#8217;s World Cup build-up and preparations is to use it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":454213,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20851],"news_category":[20810],"gn_keywords":[20852],"acf":{"announce":"He made his debut against Italy on Saturday","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454212"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=454212"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=454212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}