{"id":558412,"date":"2026-03-23T05:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558412\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:06:11","slug":"canberras-best-athletes-afl-canberra-capital-football-raiders-cup-john-i-dent-cup-the-canberra-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558412\/","title":{"rendered":"Canberra&#8217;s best athletes: AFL Canberra, Capital Football, Raiders Cup, John I Dent Cup | The Canberra Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Melanie Dinjaski\" class=\"size-12 rounded-full md:size-16\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774242369_838_w64_h64_fcrop.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Melanie Dinjaski is an experienced sports journalist at the Canberra Times with a genuine love of all sports. She&#8217;s covered every code from NRL to NFL. Melanie aims to bring Canberrans all the sports news they need to know. If you have a story worth sharing, get in touch!<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Dinjaski is an experienced sports journalist at the Canberra Times with a genuine love of all sports. She&#8217;s covered every code from NRL to NFL. Melanie aims to bring Canberrans all the sports news they need to know. If you have a story worth sharing, get in touch!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Polkinghorne\" class=\"size-12 rounded-full md:size-16\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/w64_h64_fcrop.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Covering the Raiders, Cavalry, cycling and racing, plus everything else that involves sport in the ACT, for The Canberra Times. Basically I love sport and watching it is a full-time job. Email: david.polkinghorne@canberratimes.com.au<\/p>\n<p>Covering the Raiders, Cavalry, cycling and racing, plus everything else that involves sport in the ACT, for The Canberra Times. Basically I love sport and watching it is a full-time job. Email: david.polkinghorne@canberratimes.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melanie Dinjaski is an experienced sports journalist at the Canberra Times with a genuine love of all sports.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-558412","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558412","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=558412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}