{"id":1480,"date":"2014-12-17T11:31:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T22:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2017-03-09T08:28:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T19:28:44","slug":"new-npec-heartland-coach-for-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/2014\/12\/17\/new-npec-heartland-coach-for-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW NPEC HEARTLAND COACH FOR 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Willie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1481\" src=\"https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Willie.jpg\" alt=\"Willie\" width=\"221\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Willie.jpg 221w, https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Willie-74x100.jpg 74w, https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Willie-37x50.jpg 37w, https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Willie-18x25.jpg 18w, https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Willie-110x150.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><strong>The East Coast RFU is pleased to announce the appointment of new Head Coach Willie Waitoa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Willie has played nearly 50 games in the Sky Blue jersey and is extremely loyal to it.<\/p>\n<p>He made a compelling presentation in his interview inspiring the panel to make the selection.<\/p>\n<p>Willie\u2019s &#8220;really humbled at being successful in my application for the 2015 heartland championship head coach position.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen many of my family play in the sky blue jersey (Father, brother, uncles, cousin). and was very proud to wear it myself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m under no illusions as to the task at hand, my apprehension when first appointed has now turned to excitement &#8211; especially due to some of the talented players I\u2019ve spoken to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ECRFU would like to extend thanks to 2014 Coach Whetu Haerewa and his management team for the great contributions made to rugby development this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The East Coast RFU is pleased to announce the appointment of new Head Coach Willie Waitoa. Willie has played nearly 50 games in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-npec-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npec.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}