{"id":9042,"date":"2016-06-03T11:38:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T15:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=9042"},"modified":"2016-06-03T11:38:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T15:08:28","slug":"calgary-pitch-vandalised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=9042","title":{"rendered":"Calgary pitch vandalised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/forest-lawn-cricket-pitch-vandalized.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9043\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/forest-lawn-cricket-pitch-vandalized-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"forest-lawn-cricket-pitch-vandalized\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/forest-lawn-cricket-pitch-vandalized-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/forest-lawn-cricket-pitch-vandalized-300x352.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/forest-lawn-cricket-pitch-vandalized.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>CBC Calgary reports:-<br \/>\nFor the second time in a year, cricket players in Calgary are scrambling to repair a pitch in Forest Lawn.<br \/>\n&#8220;They just destroyed the whole thing,&#8221; said Salman Khan, president of Calgary and District Cricket League.<br \/>\n&#8220;They made sure that nobody can play cricket.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said vandals &#8220;intentionally&#8221; cut a strip down the middle of the carpet on the public pitch, located in the city&#8217;s southeast.<br \/>\nThe damage has forced eight games to be rescheduled, which Khan said can be tricky to accommodate because there are only six public cricket pitches in the city.<br \/>\n&#8220;Calgary has more than 1,000 players and tons of people are getting in the queue to join us.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/calgary-cricket-pitch-vandalized-forest-lawn-1.3613119\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC Calgary reports:- For the second time in a year, cricket players in Calgary are scrambling to repair a pitch in Forest Lawn. &#8220;They just destroyed the whole thing,&#8221; said Salman Khan, president of Calgary and District Cricket League. &#8220;They made sure that nobody can play cricket.&#8221; He said vandals &#8220;intentionally&#8221; cut a strip down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9043,"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\/9042"}],"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=9042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9044,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions\/9044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}