{"id":9047,"date":"2016-06-04T06:38:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T10:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=9047"},"modified":"2016-06-04T06:38:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T10:08:49","slug":"geoff-edwards-inducted-into-mississauga-sports-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=9047","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Edwards inducted into Mississauga Sports Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although he didn\u2019t think Canadians knew much about cricket before coming here, he was pleased to see it had a good following. While studying, he also played in the Hamilton and District Cricket League and later served as an administrator before moving to Mississauga in 1974. He went on to serve in a variety of administrative roles before becoming president of Cricket Canada from 1996 to 2003.<br \/>\n\u201cBecause cricket had been so wonderful for my development, I wanted to spread it to as much people as possible,\u201d said Edwards, a former Mississauga Sports Council director for 18 years.<br \/>\n\u201cWith this acknowledgement, I hope that I have made some progress in that regard, but I think there\u2019s a lot more that can be done.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mississauga.com\/sports-story\/6703886-hall-of-famers-praised-at-mississauga-sports-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although he didn\u2019t think Canadians knew much about cricket before coming here, he was pleased to see it had a good following. While studying, he also played in the Hamilton and District Cricket League and later served as an administrator before moving to Mississauga in 1974. He went on to serve in a variety of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047"}],"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=9047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9048,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047\/revisions\/9048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}