{"id":9137,"date":"2016-06-24T08:09:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T11:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=9137"},"modified":"2016-06-24T08:09:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T11:39:31","slug":"cricket-comes-to-pincher-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=9137","title":{"rendered":"Cricket comes to Pincher Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Verde writes for the  Pincher Creek Echo (southwest Alberta):-<br \/>\nLions Field in Pincher Creek will transform into a makeshift cricket oval this coming Sunday. The pitcher\u2019s mound will be graced by \u2018bowlers\u2019, while \u2018batsmen\u2019 will dig into the batter\u2019s box and try to hit bounced pitches.<br \/>\nThis Sunday\u2019s exhibition is about fun and introducing new people to the sport, according to event organizer Sherman Eugene.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s just a fun cricket match, nothing competitive, people should come out and have a good time,\u201d said Eugene, a native of the tiny Caribbean island of St. Lucia. \u201cWe have people coming out from everywhere; guys from the West Indies making an appearance, the usual guys from [Commonwealth countries] are coming out, along with a few locals from Pincher Creek.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinchercreekecho.com\/2016\/06\/23\/cricket-and-potluck-this-sunday\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Verde writes for the Pincher Creek Echo (southwest Alberta):- Lions Field in Pincher Creek will transform into a makeshift cricket oval this coming Sunday. The pitcher\u2019s mound will be graced by \u2018bowlers\u2019, while \u2018batsmen\u2019 will dig into the batter\u2019s box and try to hit bounced pitches. This Sunday\u2019s exhibition is about fun and introducing [&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\/9137"}],"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=9137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9138,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions\/9138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}