{"id":124469,"date":"2025-09-07T01:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T01:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124469\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T01:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T01:47:14","slug":"npc-rugby-live-updates-taranaki-v-bay-of-plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124469\/","title":{"rendered":"NPC rugby live updates: Taranaki v Bay of Plenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4K2KK7I_250816AKLTaranakiNPC_28_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" alt=\"Sage Walters-Hansen of Taranaki on way to score a try during the Auckland v Taranaki.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nSage Walters-Hansen scores a try against Auckland.<br \/>\nPhoto: David Rowland\/Photosport\n<\/p>\n<p>Taranaki sit second on the NPC table, with just one loss this season &#8211; the heartbreaking defeat that saw them lose the Ranfurly Shield to Waikato last month.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re still well placed in the provincial championship, but are up against last year&#8217;s beaten finalists, who maybe need another win to keep their hopes alive.<\/p>\n<p>Join us for all the action at 2.05pm:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sage Walters-Hansen scores a try against Auckland. Photo: David Rowland\/Photosport Taranaki sit second on the NPC table, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,1590,63,1589,44,1591,1588,1586,1587,760,85],"class_list":["post-124469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-audio","tag-australia","tag-current-affairs","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}