{"id":10291,"date":"2017-05-13T02:38:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T06:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=10291"},"modified":"2017-05-13T02:38:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T06:08:28","slug":"an-appreciation-of-the-life-of-brian-hale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=10291","title":{"rendered":"An appreciation of the life of Brian Hale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A celebration of Brian Hale&#8217;s life will take place on Saturday, May 20 at the Delta Toronto East hotel, 2035 Kennedy Rd. in Scarborough, starting at 11 a.m.<br \/>\nRon Fanfair has written a long appreciation of Brian and his contributions to cricket:-<br \/>\n&#8220;Derek Perera, who launched the Ontario Cricket Academy in the city\u2019s west end in 2002, said Hale was the best coach he played for.<br \/>\n\u201cIn my opinion, he was the greatest coach Canada has ever had,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s sad that he never got the opportunity to coach our national teams. He taught me discipline and ethics and how to be a professional. His teachings impacted my life and those of many others who went through his program. He was my guru and someone I could always turn to for sound advice.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ronfanfair.com\/home\/2017\/5\/11\/brian-hale-was-greatest-cricket-coach-canada-ever-had\" target=\"_blank\">Full piece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A celebration of Brian Hale&#8217;s life will take place on Saturday, May 20 at the Delta Toronto East hotel, 2035 Kennedy Rd. in Scarborough, starting at 11 a.m. Ron Fanfair has written a long appreciation of Brian and his contributions to cricket:- &#8220;Derek Perera, who launched the Ontario Cricket Academy in the city\u2019s west end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10292,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions\/10292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}