{"id":589585,"date":"2026-04-06T18:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589585\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:04:11","slug":"essendon-captain-responds-to-unusual-in-game-post-from-zach-merretts-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589585\/","title":{"rendered":"Essendon captain responds to &#8216;unusual&#8217; in-game post from Zach Merrett&#8217;s wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essendon captain Andrew McGrath says Zach Merrett has still \u2018fully bought in\u2019 to the Bombers despite an \u2018unusual\u2019 post from Merrett\u2019s wife during Sunday\u2019s match against the Western Bulldogs.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Merrett posted a video from high-end restaurant Gimlet during the clash, which the Bombers went on to lose by 34 points.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear Andrew McGrath\u2019s FULL interview on 3AW<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Wilson admits she found the post \u2018unusual\u2019, but McGrath has nothing but positive words to say about the former Bombers skipper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat people do in their private lives is up to them,\u201d he told 3AW Football<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear Sam Docherty and Matthew Richardson\u2019s thoughts\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon captain Andrew McGrath says Zach Merrett has still \u2018fully bought in\u2019 to the Bombers despite an \u2018unusual\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,14676,85],"class_list":["post-589585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football-featured","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589585","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=589585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}