{"id":3367,"date":"2012-07-12T07:26:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T10:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2012-07-12T07:26:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T10:56:49","slug":"brampton-cricket-stadium-would-bring-diverse-community-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=3367","title":{"rendered":"Brampton cricket stadium would bring diverse community together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Grewal, writing in the Toronto Star:-<br \/>\nBrampton has two pressing dilemmas and a local developer thinks he has one solution: To bring its diverse community together and breathe much-needed life into the struggling downtown core, why not build a cricket stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I came to Canada in 1965 the Italians wanted a soccer field,\u201d says John Cutruzzola, principal of the Inzola Group, \u201cso they were told, \u2018Sure, we\u2019ll give you a field, in your little neighbourhood over there.\u2019 That\u2019s not how you welcome people who are becoming just as important to your city as anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cutruzzola has proposed to city council a ten thousand seat multi-use stadium that could be used for baseball and world-class cricket, a sport with a religious following among many of Brampton\u2019s immigrant communities, particularly South Asians who represent a third of the population.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/article\/1225039--brampton-cricket-stadium-would-bring-diverse-community-together-developer-says\" target=\"_blank\"> Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Grewal, writing in the Toronto Star:- Brampton has two pressing dilemmas and a local developer thinks he has one solution: To bring its diverse community together and breathe much-needed life into the struggling downtown core, why not build a cricket stadium. \u201cWhen I came to Canada in 1965 the Italians wanted a soccer field,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367"}],"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=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3368,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions\/3368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}