{"id":5774,"date":"2014-02-14T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T17:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5774"},"modified":"2014-02-14T13:35:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T17:05:31","slug":"grassroots-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5774","title":{"rendered":"Grassroots cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great article by Evan Bjorkenstam for T20 International<br \/>\n&#8220;Cricket is a foreign sport in Canada and getting involved in the game here is not for the faint of heart as I have recently discovered. I am as Canadian as they come \u2013 my dad is from Sweden my mother is from England &#8211; they met in Montreal.  I grew up playing hockey, soccer and baseball just like every other kid I knew. Cricket wasn\u2019t even on the map!<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 2 years ago I watched my first IPL game with my co-workers on a computer in our warehouse. I was hooked. We soon took up a bat and tennis ball in the parking lot during our lunch breaks. I was determined to get my son involved. Easier said than done. &#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.t20international.org\/canam-united-north-americas-women-pushing-cricket-for-all-by-evan-bjorkenstam\/\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great article by Evan Bjorkenstam for T20 International &#8220;Cricket is a foreign sport in Canada and getting involved in the game here is not for the faint of heart as I have recently discovered. I am as Canadian as they come \u2013 my dad is from Sweden my mother is from England &#8211; they [&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\/5774"}],"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=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5775,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions\/5775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}