{"id":631307,"date":"2026-10-15T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631307\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T11:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:10:20","slug":"live-updates-kiwis-v-kangaroos-in-rugby-league-world-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631307\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Kiwis v Kangaroos in Rugby League World Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">The Kiwis kick off their 2026 Rugby League World Cup campaign against the Kangaroos in Sydney tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">James Fisher-Harris will lead the Kiwis in search of their second World Cup title, trying to recreate the success of the 2008 Kiwis side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Kalyn Ponga and Dane Gagai are set to make their Kiwis debut tonight after both being named in the starting 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Kick-off is at 10.05pm NZT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kiwis kick off their 2026 Rugby League World Cup campaign against the Kangaroos in Sydney tonight. James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[807,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-631307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-kiwis","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631307","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=631307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}