{"id":727550,"date":"2026-06-10T14:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/727550\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:27:14","slug":"neale-daniher-state-funeral-public-pays-respect-to-mnd-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/727550\/","title":{"rendered":"Neale Daniher state funeral: Public pays respect to MND fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sporting stars, leaders and everyday Aussies have flocked to the state funeral for AFL icon and MND warrior Neale Daniher at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p>In a hallowed arena, considered the cathedral of Australian sport, family, friends and Daniher disciples have said goodbye \u2013 and thank you \u2013 to \u201cthe best of humans, a teacher to us all, a man who showed us all was possible, and, importantly, to live without complaint\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read our blog coverage below &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sporting stars, leaders and everyday Aussies have flocked to the state funeral for AFL icon and MND warrior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,31549,352475,352474,17282,232399,85,22177,352473],"class_list":["post-727550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-sport","tag-business-bigwigs","tag-incredible-man","tag-live-coverage","tag-sporting-stars","tag-sports","tag-state-funeral","tag-tim-carrafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727550","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=727550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}