{"id":1954,"date":"2011-08-06T04:17:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T07:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2011-08-06T07:18:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T10:48:30","slug":"afghanistan%e2%80%99s-cricket-team-a-study-in-possibility-national-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=1954","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan\u2019s cricket team a study in possibility (National Post)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>King City is an idyllic stretch of horse farms and cornfields north of Toronto. Tucked amid the greenery is the Maple Leaf Cricket Club, home this week to a four-day Intercontinental Cup match between Canada and defending champions, Afghanistan.<br \/>\nIf hockey is Canada\u2019s game, then cricket is Afghanistan\u2019s. National team members are celebrated as a merry band of cricket-bat-wielding Wayne Gretzkys. And they play not to get rich, but for pride and country.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2011\/08\/05\/afghanistans-cricket-team-a-study-in-possibility\/\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King City is an idyllic stretch of horse farms and cornfields north of Toronto. Tucked amid the greenery is the Maple Leaf Cricket Club, home this week to a four-day Intercontinental Cup match between Canada and defending champions, Afghanistan. If hockey is Canada\u2019s game, then cricket is Afghanistan\u2019s. National team members are celebrated as a [&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\/1954"}],"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=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}