{"id":172527,"date":"2025-10-01T10:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172527\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:03:11","slug":"james-slipper-to-retire-from-australia-duty-after-new-zealand-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172527\/","title":{"rendered":"James Slipper to retire from Australia duty after New Zealand Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia prop James Slipper will retire from international duty after the Wallabies&#8217; Test against New Zealand this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old, Australia&#8217;s most capped player, became the first player to play 150 Tests for the Wallabies during a defeat by the All Blacks on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He represented Australia in four World Cups and captained the side on 15 occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Representing the Wallabies has been the single proudest achievement of my rugby career and a privilege I have never taken for granted,&#8221; said Slipper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As a young kid on the Gold Coast playing backyard footy with my brothers, it was a dream to pull on the gold jersey &#8211; and to be able to say I&#8217;ve lived my dream for what&#8217;s coming on 16 years is more than I could ever have asked for.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia prop James Slipper will retire from international duty after the Wallabies&#8217; Test against New Zealand this weekend.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-172527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}