{"id":154401,"date":"2025-09-19T13:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/154401\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:09:09","slug":"opinion-nrl-finals-canberra-v-sharks-im-not-going-heres-why-the-canberra-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/154401\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | NRL finals: Canberra v Sharks. I&#8217;m not going, here&#8217;s why | The Canberra Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jacob McArthur\" class=\"size-12 rounded-full md:size-16\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755908890_466_w64_h64_fcrop.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jacob McArthur is opinions editor for The Canberra Times and Australian Community Media. As part of the Canberra Times&#8217; production team, he helps the people of Canberra and beyond get the stories they need, when they need them across a range of platforms, while helping maintain a high editorial standard. Before moving to Canberra in 2020, he started with Australian Community Media in 2015 as a journalist for The Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he kept a close eye on Tamworth Regional Council. Jacob was also the co-host of ACM&#8217;s Water Pressure podcast where he and Jamieson Murphy took a deep dive on issues and key decisions arising during one of the region&#8217;s worst droughts on record.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob McArthur is opinions editor for The Canberra Times and Australian Community Media. As part of the Canberra Times&#8217; production team, he helps the people of Canberra and beyond get the stories they need, when they need them across a range of platforms, while helping maintain a high editorial standard. Before moving to Canberra in 2020, he started with Australian Community Media in 2015 as a journalist for The Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he kept a close eye on Tamworth Regional Council. Jacob was also the co-host of ACM&#8217;s Water Pressure podcast where he and Jamieson Murphy took a deep dive on issues and key decisions arising during one of the region&#8217;s worst droughts on record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob McArthur is opinions editor for The Canberra Times and Australian Community Media. As part of the Canberra&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-154401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154401","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=154401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}