{"id":697713,"date":"2026-05-27T11:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/697713\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:03:11","slug":"state-of-origin-live-updates-new-south-wales-blues-vs-queensland-maroons-game-i-sydney-olympic-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/697713\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Origin live updates: New South Wales Blues vs Queensland Maroons, Game I, Sydney Olympic Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/lcimg-3612f060-6a8f-438b-b0b5-102467f07d1f.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"image_fluidImage__Sg10H\" data-component=\"LiveBlogPostImg\"\/>(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Well, a superb opening half hour there from the Queenslanders, absolutely pummelling the Blues who looked sluggish, uncharacteristically sloppy and easily dominated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">That period earned the Maroons three tries and a penalty goal, leaving the Blues fans stunned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">But then the tide turned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A fortunate penalty and the Blues took full advantage and, with two chances in the Maroons red zone, came away with a try and came very close to nabbing a second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It&#8217;s been a frenetic half of footy that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Getty Images) Well, a superb opening half hour there from the Queenslanders, absolutely pummelling the Blues who looked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,3925,127915,160,6462,23423,673,701,159,85,6405,670],"class_list":["post-697713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blues","tag-game-1","tag-live-blog","tag-live-updates","tag-maroons","tag-new-south-wales","tag-queensland","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-state-of-origin","tag-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697713","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=697713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}