{"id":5938,"date":"2014-04-16T14:28:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T17:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5938"},"modified":"2014-04-16T14:28:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T17:58:22","slug":"dennis-inducted-into-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5938","title":{"rendered":"Dennis inducted into Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Share features Franklyn Dennis:<br \/>\nWhen he migrated from Jamaica in 1972, Franklyn Dennis left his cricket equipment behind for a younger brother who was attending Wolmer\u2019s at the time. \u00a0 A talented right-handed batsman, Dennis represented Boys\u2019 Town and Melbourne Cricket clubs and played in two national trial matches alongside Lawrence Rowe, Maurice Foster and Desmond Lewis who all turned out for the West Indies. \u00a0 He was however unaware that cricket was played in Canada. \u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s the honest truth,\u201d Dennis, who was inducted into Cricket Canada\u2019s Hall of Fame last Saturday night, said. \u201cI brought my soccer gear because I knew there were some Jamaicans playing in the leagues across the city.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sharenews.com\/franklyn-dennis-inducted-into-cricket-canadas-hall-of-fame\/\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share features Franklyn Dennis: When he migrated from Jamaica in 1972, Franklyn Dennis left his cricket equipment behind for a younger brother who was attending Wolmer\u2019s at the time. \u00a0 A talented right-handed batsman, Dennis represented Boys\u2019 Town and Melbourne Cricket clubs and played in two national trial matches alongside Lawrence Rowe, Maurice Foster and [&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\/5938"}],"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=5938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5939,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions\/5939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}