{"id":7296,"date":"2015-03-03T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=7296"},"modified":"2015-03-03T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T01:59:00","slug":"ed-smith-on-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=7296","title":{"rendered":"Ed Smith on the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing for CricInfo<br \/>\nSomeone must always look to the future. For cricket, that means using the World Cup wisely, as both a wonderful showcase for the best in the game and also a realistic target and channel for the aspirations of Associate nations. This is no time for cricket to contract. If it merely settles for what it has got, it is likely to lose that as well.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/magazine\/content\/story\/841911.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing for CricInfo Someone must always look to the future. For cricket, that means using the World Cup wisely, as both a wonderful showcase for the best in the game and also a realistic target and channel for the aspirations of Associate nations. This is no time for cricket to contract. If it merely settles [&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\/7296"}],"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=7296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7297,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296\/revisions\/7297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}