{"id":507069,"date":"2026-02-27T07:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/507069\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:31:09","slug":"aami-community-series-essendon-v-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/507069\/","title":{"rendered":"AAMI Community Series: Essendon v Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                News\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Our full lineup for tomorrow&#8217;s clash with the Saints in Ballarat.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Essendon have announced their side for tomorrow&#8217;s AAMI Community Series match against Saints, taking place at Mars Stadium in Ballarat from 3:10pm AEDT.<\/p>\n<p>Zach Merrett\u00a0headlines the ins, with the star midfielder returning to the side after missing the first practice match due to State of Origin in Perth.<\/p>\n<p>Defender\u00a0Mason Redman\u00a0will also return after missing due to personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Archie Perkins\u00a0will get his first taste at AFL level for 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News Our full lineup for tomorrow&#8217;s clash with the Saints in Ballarat. Essendon have announced their side for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-507069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507069","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=507069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}