{"id":5351,"date":"2013-10-02T07:13:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T10:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5351"},"modified":"2013-10-02T07:13:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T10:43:59","slug":"cricket-bonds-in-the-canadian-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5351","title":{"rendered":"Cricket bonds in the Canadian autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Sawh writes for CricInfo:-<br \/>\nClub cricket in Toronto has, in recent years, absolutely blown up. It&#8217;s a byproduct of the immigration boom that Eastern Canada has experienced, and the game is better for it, for there are now vast numbers of ardent fans and players in a place where &#8220;cricket&#8221; has predominantly meant &#8220;a grasshopper-like organism&#8221; for decades. While confined to the indoors during the grey months of winter, players suppress their desires to hit the field with artificial turf in indoor practice nets. There&#8217;s an incredible motivation that drives one to don winter gear over cricket gear, proceed in frosty conditions to a practice, strip your winter gear off, play cricket, and then reload it onto yourself for a return trudge to your heated car and home. The commencement of the summer season that follows this wintery reality is like the sweet reward after an arduous journey. This isn&#8217;t just another set of games, for the value of time, effort, and care that has been put in is on the line.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/thestands\/content\/story\/675817.html\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Sawh writes for CricInfo:- Club cricket in Toronto has, in recent years, absolutely blown up. It&#8217;s a byproduct of the immigration boom that Eastern Canada has experienced, and the game is better for it, for there are now vast numbers of ardent fans and players in a place where &#8220;cricket&#8221; has predominantly meant &#8220;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\/5351"}],"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=5351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5353,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions\/5353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}