{"id":38901,"date":"2025-09-23T14:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/38901\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:23:11","slug":"south-revels-in-ranfurly-shield-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/38901\/","title":{"rendered":"South revels in Ranfurly Shield win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A victorious Otago is sharing the Ranfurly Shield with supporters in the South.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The team wrestled the Log o&#8217; Wood from old enemy Canterbury in a 38-36 thrilling encounter in Christchurch on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Also on display was the Farah Palmer Cup, won by the women&#8217;s team, Otago Spirit, who beat Northland Kauri 37-12\u00a0 in front of a home crowd the following day.<\/p>\n<p>ODT photographer Peter McIntosh captured special moments as players Jake Te Hiwi and Finn Hurley visited Milton and Balclutha on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-21-10\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ranfurly_shield_3_220925.jpg\" width=\"992\" height=\"472\" alt=\"South Otago mayor Bryan Cadogan takes a selfie with players Finn Hurley (left) and Jake Te Hiwi....\"\/><\/p>\n<p>South Otago mayor Bryan Cadogan takes a selfie with players Finn Hurley (left) and Jake Te Hiwi. PHOTOS: PETER MCINTOSH<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A victorious Otago is sharing the Ranfurly Shield with supporters in the South.\u00a0 The team wrestled the Log&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-38901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}