{"id":654549,"date":"2026-05-07T02:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654549\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:05:10","slug":"the-junior-rugby-league-club-forced-to-turn-female-players-away-illawarra-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654549\/","title":{"rendered":"The junior rugby league club forced to turn female players away | Illawarra Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grace Hamilton\" class=\"size-12 rounded-full md:size-16\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753230668_971_w64_h64_fcrop.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Grace Hamilton covers all things sport for the Illawarra Mercury. Born and raised a Queenslander before relocating to Wollongong, she is passionate about telling the story behind the story and supporting clubs from grassroots to professional. Got a yarn? Email her at: grace.hamilton@austcommunitymedia.com.au<\/p>\n<p>Grace Hamilton covers all things sport for the Illawarra Mercury. Born and raised a Queenslander before relocating to Wollongong, she is passionate about telling the story behind the story and supporting clubs from grassroots to professional. Got a yarn? Email her at: grace.hamilton@austcommunitymedia.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grace Hamilton covers all things sport for the Illawarra Mercury. Born and raised a Queenslander before relocating to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-654549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654549","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=654549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}