{"id":591628,"date":"2026-04-07T17:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591628\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:03:14","slug":"bombers-go-retro-for-gather-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591628\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombers go retro for Gather Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Announcement\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Old staple to be brought back in round five.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Yep, they&#8217;re back.<\/p>\n<p>Essendon will accompany its &#8216;black on red&#8217; clash jumper with the Club&#8217;s classic red shorts for Saturday&#8217;s Gather Round clash with Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>A former staple of the kit until the early 1980&#8217;s, this weekend marks the first time the Bombers have worn red shorts in an official home-and-away game since 2011, where it was used for select away fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>See the new (or old-school) look in action from 1:15pm AEST on Saturday when the Bombers face off with the Dees at Adelaide Oval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Announcement Old staple to be brought back in round five. Yep, they&#8217;re back. Essendon will accompany its &#8216;black&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-591628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591628","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=591628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}