{"id":43359,"date":"2026-05-27T01:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/steven-naismith-backs-lawrence-shankland-for-strong-world-cup-amidst-rangers-rumours-best-hes-ever-been\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T01:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:02:39","slug":"steven-naismith-backs-lawrence-shankland-for-strong-world-cup-amidst-rangers-rumours-best-hes-ever-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/steven-naismith-backs-lawrence-shankland-for-strong-world-cup-amidst-rangers-rumours-best-hes-ever-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Naismith backs Lawrence Shankland for strong World Cup amidst Rangers rumours: &#8216;Best he&#8217;s ever been&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Naismith reflects on the sensational season of Lawrence Shankland at Hearts and backs the striker to continue that form in the World Cup amidst a potential move to Rangers.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/video\/34022\/13548231\/steven-naismith-backs-lawrence-shankland-for-strong-world-cup-amidst-rangers-rumours-best-hes-ever-been\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Naismith reflects on the sensational season of Lawrence Shankland at Hearts and backs the striker to continue that form in the World Cup amidst a potential move to Rangers.Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}