{"id":3592,"date":"2012-08-16T07:35:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T11:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2012-08-16T07:35:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T11:05:38","slug":"cricket-documentary-features-mississauga-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=3592","title":{"rendered":"Cricket documentary features Mississauga team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The documentary Cricket Nation opens with a group of beer-guzzling hockey players razzing a teammate over his other passion.<br \/>\nCricket, unlike football and hockey, they said, isn\u2019t a real sport. How can it be, they chorused, when players wear white slacks and loafers \u2014 and take tea breaks?<br \/>\n\u201cPlaying cricket isn\u2019t much of a challenge. I call it a soft sport,\u201d one said, at the same time allowing he\u2019d never seen a game, let alone played it.<br \/>\n\u201cIsn\u2019t cricket an insect?\u201d another smirked.<br \/>\nThe film, a portion of which follows a team from the Mississauga Ramblers Cricket Club during an annual trek to Antigua for a seniors tournament, airs Sunday (Aug. 19) in Punjabi and on Aug. 26 in English on OMNI 2 at 9 p.m.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mississauga.com\/sports\/article\/1485672--cricket-documentary-features-mississauga-team\">Full story on mississauga.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The documentary Cricket Nation opens with a group of beer-guzzling hockey players razzing a teammate over his other passion. Cricket, unlike football and hockey, they said, isn\u2019t a real sport. How can it be, they chorused, when players wear white slacks and loafers \u2014 and take tea breaks? \u201cPlaying cricket isn\u2019t much of a challenge. [&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\/3592"}],"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=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3593,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions\/3593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}