{"id":537275,"date":"2026-03-13T07:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537275\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T07:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:09:09","slug":"inside-footballs-most-intense-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537275\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside football\u2019s most intense rivalry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hate of origin: Inside football\u2019s most intense rivalry<\/p>\n<p>Hate of origin: Inside football\u2019s most intense rivalry<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We\u2019re working to restore it. Please try again later.<\/p>\n<p>Dismiss<a href=\"#sections\">Skip to sections navigation<\/a><a href=\"#content\">Skip to content<\/a><a href=\"#footer\">Skip to footer<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hate of origin: Inside football\u2019s most intense rivalry\" class=\"ZAk8w\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dc2195ca30c73af676328099f954063457bb4925.jpeg\" \/>Series<\/p>\n<p>Essendon and Hawthorn have hated each other for more than 40 years, from some old-fashioned thuggery and a fake drug scandal in the mid-80s to last year\u2019s failed bid by the Hawks to poach the Bombers\u2019 captain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hate of origin: Inside football\u2019s most intense rivalry Hate of origin: Inside football\u2019s most intense rivalry We\u2019re sorry,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-537275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537275","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=537275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}