{"id":381447,"date":"2025-12-31T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/381447\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:10:09","slug":"eroni-clarke-named-in-new-year-honours-blues-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/381447\/","title":{"rendered":"ERONI CLARKE NAMED IN NEW YEAR HONOURS \u2014 Blues Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Eroni Clarke has been named a\u00a0Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to the Pacific community and sport in the New Year Honours.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke, Blues #13, played 48 games for the club from 1996-2000 and was part of the team that lifted the inaugural Super Rugby trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke, whose son Caleb currently plays for the Blues, is NZ Rugby\u2019s Pasifika\u00a0Engagement Manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEroni was an electric player at every level, with pace, power and skill taking him all the way to the black jersey.\u00a0He\u2019s\u00a0now using\u00a0his\u00a0personal experience\u00a0to\u00a0help\u00a0create culturally competent spaces within rugby\u00a0to\u00a0enable\u00a0Pasifika to thrive in all aspects of the game,\u201d NZR Acting CEO Steve Lancaster said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis impact on Pasifika communities transcends rugby, which this\u00a0honour\u00a0duly acknowledges. We\u00a0value having\u00a0his passion,\u00a0expertise\u00a0and ability to connect across cultures in our game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eroni Clarke has been named a\u00a0Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-381447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381447","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=381447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}