{"id":650229,"date":"2026-05-05T02:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/650229\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:15:09","slug":"past-player-of-the-week-lancelot-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/650229\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Player of the Week &#8211; Lancelot Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit player in Norwood\u2019s stellar premiership year of 1907, Lance Dean \u00a0proved his mettle a decade later on the battlefields of the Great War.<\/p>\n<p>Lance was born to Brigadier-General George Dean and his wife Florence, n\u00e9e Smith, at Kensington Park on 4 April 1886. \u00a0He had a sister and five brothers. He competed in football, cricket and rowing at St Peter\u2019s College.<\/p>\n<p>To read more, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redlegsmuseum.com.au\/ON_FIELD\/PLAYERS\/DEANLancelot.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bit player in Norwood\u2019s stellar premiership year of 1907, Lance Dean \u00a0proved his mettle a decade later&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-650229","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\/650229","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=650229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}