{"id":11696,"date":"2018-07-22T09:58:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T13:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11696"},"modified":"2018-07-22T09:58:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T13:28:13","slug":"cricket-returns-to-frederictons-officers-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=11696","title":{"rendered":"Cricket returns to Fredericton&#8217;s Officers&#8217; Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Gill for CBC:-<br \/>\nA century and a half after it was first played in downtown Fredericton, cricket has returned to Officers&#8217; Square.<\/p>\n<p>The Loyalist Cricket Club decided to hold a match to mark the 150-year anniversary after researching the history of cricket in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The club discovered the square had been granted as a cricket ground and a husband and wife travelled it to watch the first cricket match there in 1868.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They found the excerpt of a diary of a person who actually attended a game about 150 years ago,&#8221; said Bradley Cersing, a member of the club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/new-brunswick\/cricket-fredericton-officers-square-1.4756633\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Gill for CBC:- A century and a half after it was first played in downtown Fredericton, cricket has returned to Officers&#8217; Square. The Loyalist Cricket Club decided to hold a match to mark the 150-year anniversary after researching the history of cricket in the city. The club discovered the square had been granted as [&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\/11696"}],"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=11696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11697,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696\/revisions\/11697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}