{"id":11334,"date":"2018-03-21T13:33:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T17:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11334"},"modified":"2018-03-21T13:33:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T17:03:25","slug":"hassan-mirza-profile-from-the-eyeopener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11334","title":{"rendered":"Hassan Mirza profile from the Eyeopener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever Ryerson alumnus Hassan Mirza goes, cricket teams spring up.<br \/>\nFirst, was the one he started at Monarch Park Collegiate Institute after immigrating to Toronto from Pakistan at 15. Next, while attending Ryerson\u2019s Chang School for business management courses, he organized and captained the men\u2019s cricket team, which received official club status in 2015. And in 2014, he founded Canadian College Cricket (CCC), an organization that helps colleges and universities across Canada form their own cricket teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time I go to watch one of the Raptors games downtown, I ask myself, \u2018Why can\u2019t cricket be there?\u2019 That\u2019s my dream,\u201d said the 31-year-old Mirza.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theeyeopener.com\/2018\/03\/how-a-ryerson-grad-is-taking-cricket-national\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever Ryerson alumnus Hassan Mirza goes, cricket teams spring up. First, was the one he started at Monarch Park Collegiate Institute after immigrating to Toronto from Pakistan at 15. Next, while attending Ryerson\u2019s Chang School for business management courses, he organized and captained the men\u2019s cricket team, which received official club status in 2015. And [&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\/11334"}],"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=11334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11335,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334\/revisions\/11335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}