{"id":11531,"date":"2018-06-06T08:43:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T12:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11531"},"modified":"2018-06-06T08:43:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T12:13:04","slug":"success-inspires-edmontons-female-cricket-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11531","title":{"rendered":"Success inspires Edmonton&#8217;s female cricket team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Muzyka for CBC:-<br \/>\n&#8220;Ena Nicholson began playing cricket when she was 50 years old after seeing a flyer at the rugby club.<br \/>\nNicholson, who stays active playing soccer and squash, saw the flyer as a chance to reconnect with her heritage. &#8220;For me, it&#8217;s getting back to my roots,&#8221; Nicholson told CBC&#8217;s Radio Active Monday. &#8220;I&#8217;m English, and since we invented the sport, I should know how to play it.&#8221;&#8230;<br \/>\nNicholson said it&#8217;s easy to advance in the ranks of women&#8217;s cricket in Canada, considering the sport is just starting to pick up steam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are so willing to teach you when you&#8217;re playing,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The other team will stop you and say, &#8216;Listen, try this, try that,&#8217; just to improve your game.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/edmonton-women-cricket-alberta-1.4692507\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full story and audio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Muzyka for CBC:- &#8220;Ena Nicholson began playing cricket when she was 50 years old after seeing a flyer at the rugby club. Nicholson, who stays active playing soccer and squash, saw the flyer as a chance to reconnect with her heritage. &#8220;For me, it&#8217;s getting back to my roots,&#8221; Nicholson told CBC&#8217;s Radio Active [&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\/11531"}],"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=11531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11532,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531\/revisions\/11532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}