G\u2019day viewers,<\/p>\n
Can you smell the anticipation in the air? It\u2019s grand final eve \u2013 bigger than Christmas Eve for those of us who worship at the alter of the AFL.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also, of course, a public holiday here in Melbourne, and the excitement is certainly building for tomorrow\u2019s big game between Fremantle and Brisbane Lions.<\/p>\n
I took a light jog through the city\u2019s streets before landing at HQ for work today, and although the city was still waking up, there were plenty of signs that the biggest annual sporting event on our calendar was drawing near.<\/p>\n
Based on my very un-scientific observations Freo\u2019s purple was the dominant colour I noticed being worn.<\/p>\n
Anyway, it\u2019s bound to be a ripper day as we build up to the game, so buckle up join us for the ride, and always feel free to share your thoughts, observations, predictions and story tips in the comments section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"G\u2019day viewers, Can you smell the anticipation in the air? It\u2019s grand final eve \u2013 bigger than Christmas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-904280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904280","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=904280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}