{"id":10855,"date":"2017-08-19T15:10:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T18:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=10855"},"modified":"2017-08-19T15:10:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T18:40:53","slug":"from-lows-to-highs-cricket-champ-has-seen-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=10855","title":{"rendered":"From lows to highs, cricket champ has seen it all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A profile of Nova Scotia Provincial coach and former fitst-class crickter Reese Telling in the Chronicle Herald:-<br \/>\nThe 33-year-old spoke frankly with The Chronicle Herald about the addiction that almost cost him his life.<\/p>\n<p>Telling was raised in the South African city of Port Elizabeth by his grandmother, growing up to become a professional cricket player, with international ambitions of playing for his country.<br \/>\nSidelined by injury at 21, Telling was warned by doctors that if he didn\u2019t stop playing he\u2019d lose the use of his leg altogether.<br \/>\nFacing challenging times and plagued by depression, he drifted into the party life. Nightclubbing and excessive drinking became his daily lifestyle, Telling said.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen stress, anxiety and depression got so bad, I moved to hard core drugs like crack cocaine and ecstasy.<br \/>\n\u201cI found myself staying in the streets and begging for food. My family disowned me because of the pain I put my family through by lying and stealing from them. I had to live a life of pain on the street, trying to fight my way through addiction.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/sports\/1495740-from-lows-to-highs-cricket-champ-has-seen-it-all\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A profile of Nova Scotia Provincial coach and former fitst-class crickter Reese Telling in the Chronicle Herald:- The 33-year-old spoke frankly with The Chronicle Herald about the addiction that almost cost him his life. Telling was raised in the South African city of Port Elizabeth by his grandmother, growing up to become a professional cricket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10855"}],"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=10855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10856,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10855\/revisions\/10856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}