{"id":11515,"date":"2018-06-04T11:01:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T14:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11515"},"modified":"2018-06-04T11:01:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T14:31:53","slug":"cricket-a-real-hit-with-junior-high-students-in-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11515","title":{"rendered":"Cricket a real hit with junior high students in Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBC news story:-<br \/>\nho would&#8217;ve thought playing on a junior high school cricket team in Edmonton would carry so much prestige?<br \/>\nBut over the last few years, that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s been happening.<br \/>\n&#8220;If you make the cricket team, like, basically you&#8217;re cool now,&#8221; said Shahmeer Khan, captain of the reigning city champion Vernon Barford Blues.<br \/>\nBefore 2011, a cricket league in the public system didn&#8217;t exist. Today, seven junior high school teams play during the springtime.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/school-cricket-league-1.4688637\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC news story:- ho would&#8217;ve thought playing on a junior high school cricket team in Edmonton would carry so much prestige? But over the last few years, that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s been happening. &#8220;If you make the cricket team, like, basically you&#8217;re cool now,&#8221; said Shahmeer Khan, captain of the reigning city champion Vernon Barford Blues. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515"}],"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=11515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11516,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515\/revisions\/11516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}