{"id":211434,"date":"2025-10-14T00:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T00:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211434\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T00:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T00:14:07","slug":"pacific-rugby-players-ceo-hale-t-pole-is-helping-retired-players-with-life-after-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211434\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Rugby Players CEO Hale T-Pole is helping retired players with life after rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ikale Tahi and professional rugby player Hale T-Pole is now the CEO of Pacific Rugby Players &#8211; an association dedicated to ensure that Pacific rugby players have a voice at the decision-making tables and that players&#8217; needs are being met.<\/p>\n<p>T-Pole was in Tonga recently running workshops for retired professional players, helping them explore life after rugby.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We owe something to these players &#8211; the retired players,&#8221; T-Pole said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we started putting some resources together. \u00a0This year we ran an agriculture and farming workshop.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ikale Tahi and professional rugby player Hale T-Pole is now the CEO of Pacific Rugby Players &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[25103,64,63,129986,19786,129983,129985,129984,760,588,85,18559,7893],"class_list":{"0":"post-211434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-association","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-hale-t-pole","12":"tag-pacific-islands","13":"tag-pacific-rugby-players","14":"tag-professional-sport","15":"tag-retired-players","16":"tag-rugby","17":"tag-sport","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-tonga","20":"tag-union"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211434","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=211434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}