{"id":11056,"date":"2017-10-01T07:11:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T10:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11056"},"modified":"2017-10-01T07:11:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T10:41:38","slug":"cricket-returns-to-saint-john-nb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11056","title":{"rendered":"Cricket returns to Saint John, NB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Wright for CBC:<br \/>\nTwo years ago, cricket was so underplayed in Saint John that the Saint John Cricket Club had no field where they could practice.<br \/>\n&#8220;Last year we were practising in a parking lot,&#8221; said Vishal Vincent, vice-president of the Saint John Cricket Club.<br \/>\nSince then, cricket in Saint John has been on an upswing.<br \/>\nThe team got permission to play on a disused field in Exhibition Park, &#8220;practised really hard&#8221; \u2014 and managed to get good enough to qualify for the provincial cricket finals this weekend in Fredericton, said Vincent.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/new-brunswick\/saint-john-cricket-club-1.4313115\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Wright for CBC: Two years ago, cricket was so underplayed in Saint John that the Saint John Cricket Club had no field where they could practice. &#8220;Last year we were practising in a parking lot,&#8221; said Vishal Vincent, vice-president of the Saint John Cricket Club. Since then, cricket in Saint John has been on [&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\/11056"}],"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=11056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11057,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056\/revisions\/11057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}