{"id":6996,"date":"2023-08-04T12:08:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T00:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6996"},"modified":"2023-08-04T12:08:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T00:08:59","slug":"former-all-black-captain-tane-norton-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6996","title":{"rendered":"Former All Black captain Tane Norton dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former All Black captain Tane Norton has died, he was 81.<\/p>\n<p>He played 34 games for the All Blacks, including 27 tests.<\/p>\n<p>Norton, a hooker, debuted in 1971 against the British and Irish Lions.<\/p>\n<p>He captained the All Blacks nine times including the winning home series against the British and Irish Lions in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Norton played 82 games for Canterbury and was a regular in the New Zealand Maori side.<\/p>\n<p>Norton was President of New Zealand Rugby in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former All Black captain Tane Norton has died, he was 81. He played 34 games for the All Blacks, including 27 tests. Norton, a hooker, debuted in 1971 against the British and Irish Lions. He captained the All Blacks nine times including the winning home series against the British and Irish Lions in 1977. Norton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6998,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996\/revisions\/6998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}