{"id":5421,"date":"2013-11-01T13:39:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T17:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2013-11-01T13:39:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T17:09:31","slug":"new-cricket-facility-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5421","title":{"rendered":"New cricket facility in Toronto?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Star reports:-<br \/>\nToronto is just steps away from having a regulation-size cricket pitch that could allow the city to play host to international matches \u2014 and there are already plans to put it to use next summer. The city is \u201ccritically short\u201d on facilities, said Councillor Adam Vaughan, and after a year of discussion over potential locations he says Coronation Park seems like a good fit.<br \/>\nA renovation at the park would see the existing three baseball pitches rejigged to accommodate the extra cricket pitch (without losing a baseball pitch) and it wouldn\u2019t cost the city much Vaughan said since, \u201cit\u2019s a flat piece of grass.\u201d The city isn\u2019t looking to build any stadiums, he said, \u201cbut as long as we build the pitch in a way that can accommodate that . . . It will be able to turn into a stadium when needed to host the major events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/sports\/2013\/10\/31\/toronto_close_to_getting_regulationsize_cricket_pitch.html\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Star reports:- Toronto is just steps away from having a regulation-size cricket pitch that could allow the city to play host to international matches \u2014 and there are already plans to put it to use next summer. The city is \u201ccritically short\u201d on facilities, said Councillor Adam Vaughan, and after a year of discussion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421"}],"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=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5422,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions\/5422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}