{"id":8411,"date":"2015-10-24T09:41:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T13:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=8411"},"modified":"2015-10-24T09:42:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T13:12:45","slug":"cricket-in-lethbridge-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=8411","title":{"rendered":"Cricket in Lethbridge, Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is one of the most popular sports in the entire world, and yet here in Canada the game of cricket barely registers on the national stage. The same could be said for Lethbridge, until Harsha Bandara arrived. The 28-year-old moved to the city two years ago to do his masters of kinesiology at the university.<br \/>\n\u201cI didn&#8217;t have any plans coming here, I just wanted to get my education done,\u201d said the Sri Lankan native? However, he ended up doing a lot more than just school.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/2296694\/cricket-sensation-gaining-popularity-in-lethbridge\/\">Full story from Global News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is one of the most popular sports in the entire world, and yet here in Canada the game of cricket barely registers on the national stage. The same could be said for Lethbridge, until Harsha Bandara arrived. The 28-year-old moved to the city two years ago to do his masters of kinesiology at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8411"}],"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=8411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8414,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8411\/revisions\/8414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}