{"id":202294,"date":"2025-10-10T06:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/202294\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T06:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:31:13","slug":"npc-rugby-live-updates-otago-v-waikato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/202294\/","title":{"rendered":"NPC rugby live updates: Otago v Waikato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4JZSWIX_7c910de5861e399f1115d2a413d299d8_nzrbxUOqh4Xd_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1575\" alt=\"Lucas Casey.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nLucas Casey.<br \/>\nPhoto: Michael Thomas\/ActionPress\n<\/p>\n<p>Otago have locked the Ranfurly Shield away for the summer but are looking to go even better this season with a charge towards an NPC title, Standing in their way are a very hot and cold Waikato, who are bolstered by the return of a few All Blacks. Kick-off is at 7:10pm NZT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucas Casey. Photo: Michael Thomas\/ActionPress Otago have locked the Ranfurly Shield away for the summer but are looking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202295,"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-202294","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\/202294","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=202294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}