{"id":757039,"date":"2026-06-24T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757039\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:01:10","slug":"footy-legends-unite-for-a-good-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757039\/","title":{"rendered":"Footy legends unite for a good cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working in the NRL, coach Ben Gardiner knew all about the Mark Hughes Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>But it was in his family\u2019s darkest hour, when sister Sandra was diagnosed with brain cancer, he truly realised its worth.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra died in 2023, choosing to donate her brain to the Mark Hughes Foundation biobank to help with critical research.<\/p>\n<p>Now Ben\u2019s fighting hard alongside footy legend Mark Hughes to find a cure.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full video in the player above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Working in the NRL, coach Ben Gardiner knew all about the Mark Hughes Foundation. But it was in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-757039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757039","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=757039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}