{"id":7420,"date":"2015-05-02T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=7420"},"modified":"2015-05-02T15:39:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T19:09:58","slug":"newfoundland-cricketer-finally-gets-wisden-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=7420","title":{"rendered":"Newfoundland cricketer finally gets Wisden obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/nlcricket\/wp-content\/gallery\/history\/jsmunn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/nlcricket\/wp-content\/gallery\/history\/jsmunn.jpg\" alt=\"JS Munn\" width=\"200\"  align=\"left\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">JS Munn<\/p><\/div>\n<p>John Shannon Munn, Newfoundland&#8217;s greatest cricketer died tragically in 1918. Despite playing in 10 first class matches for Oxford with considerable success, his death was not noted in the obituaries in Wisden&#8217;s Cricketers Almanack, the &#8220;cricketer&#8217;s bible&#8221;, likely because the editors were overwhelmed by the number of young cricketers dying in the First World War.<br \/>\nNinety-seven years later, Wisden has remedied the omission, as Munn is included in a section of supplementary obituaries mostly composed of others who died in WW1.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/nlcricket\/?page_id=78\">JS Munn biography<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Shannon Munn, Newfoundland&#8217;s greatest cricketer died tragically in 1918. Despite playing in 10 first class matches for Oxford with considerable success, his death was not noted in the obituaries in Wisden&#8217;s Cricketers Almanack, the &#8220;cricketer&#8217;s bible&#8221;, likely because the editors were overwhelmed by the number of young cricketers dying in the First World War. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420"}],"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=7420"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7425,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions\/7425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}