{"id":8349,"date":"2015-10-01T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=8349"},"modified":"2015-10-01T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T15:52:00","slug":"cricket-in-new-glasgow-nova-scotia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=8349","title":{"rendered":"Cricket in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket fans are found in every corner of Canada- including New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, whose local paper, the News profiles Ajay Shirke<br \/>\n&#8220;Ajay Shirke takes to cricket as many Canadians take to hockey \u2013 with plenty of passion. That\u2019s why he never washes the souvenir hat his brother-in-law bought for him at the 2011 Cricket World Cup, part of which was held in Mumbai, in Shirke\u2019s native country of India.<br \/>\n\u201cMy brother-in-law, who lives in Texas, went to watch the finals,\u201d he explains. \u201cWhen India won, he purchased this hat for me.\u201d<br \/>\nShirke (pronounced sure-kay), said it was bought from an outdoor vendor following India\u2019s triumph on home soil (Canada also took part in the 2011 World Cup, finishing sixth out of seven teams in their pool) and with the wind blowing dust through the dry streets of Mumbai, there was already dust ground into the hat when it was bought.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s still there.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngnews.ca\/Sports\/2015-09-30\/article-4294656\/Dust-across-the-waters\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket fans are found in every corner of Canada- including New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, whose local paper, the News profiles Ajay Shirke &#8220;Ajay Shirke takes to cricket as many Canadians take to hockey \u2013 with plenty of passion. That\u2019s why he never washes the souvenir hat his brother-in-law bought for him at the 2011 Cricket [&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\/8349"}],"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=8349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8350,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8349\/revisions\/8350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}