{"id":905012,"date":"2026-09-25T13:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/905012\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T13:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:22:18","slug":"fans-flock-to-melbourne-ahead-of-the-afl-grand-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/905012\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans flock to Melbourne ahead of the AFL grand final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans flock to Melbourne ahead of the AFL grand final<\/p>\n<p>Published 25 September 2026, 5:56 am<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of footy fans have lined the streets of Melbourne to watch the AFL grand final parade. The Brisbane Lions and the Fremantle Dockers will go head-to-head in the final game of the season. While Fremantle are vying for their first-ever premiership, the Lions are aiming for their third in a row. It marks the third time in 20 years that two non-Victorian teams have faced off in the season decider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans flock to Melbourne ahead of the AFL grand final Published 25 September 2026, 5:56 am Thousands of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-905012","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\/905012","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=905012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}