{"id":11349,"date":"2018-04-01T09:02:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T12:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11349"},"modified":"2018-04-01T09:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T12:32:52","slug":"cricketer-playing-for-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11349","title":{"rendered":"Cricketer playing for Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo sports features South African Toronto Blue Jays infielder Gift Ngoepe who grewq up playing cricket:-<br \/>\n\u201cMy hand-eye coordination is good so when I played cricket that wasn\u2019t too tough for me, \u201d he says. \u201cPracticing cricket helped me with baseball because when I put a glove on it was a little bit easier for me. I was used to working with my hands on the cricket field. My skills in both sports transitioned from one to the other and helped me better at both.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/cricket-played-role-gift-ngoepes-amazing-baseball-story-145645711.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo sports features South African Toronto Blue Jays infielder Gift Ngoepe who grewq up playing cricket:- \u201cMy hand-eye coordination is good so when I played cricket that wasn\u2019t too tough for me, \u201d he says. \u201cPracticing cricket helped me with baseball because when I put a glove on it was a little bit easier for [&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\/11349"}],"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=11349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11350,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11349\/revisions\/11350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}