{"id":9217,"date":"2016-07-17T18:28:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T21:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=9217"},"modified":"2016-07-17T18:28:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T21:58:31","slug":"crickets-revival-in-newfoundland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=9217","title":{"rendered":"Cricket&#8217;s revival in Newfoundland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From CBC Newfoundland<br \/>\nCricket, a sport similar to baseball, was once popular in Newfoundland and Labrador but went nearly extinct several years ago.<br \/>\nNow it&#8217;s getting revived thanks to a new generation of players.<br \/>\nAmit Sundly, secretary of Cricket Newfoundland and Labrador, came to St. John&#8217;s from India. To his surprise, he was swinging a flat bat two days after his arrival.<br \/>\n&#8220;I had no clue that I would get cricket here,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n&#8220;But it was the second day when I saw a bunch of guys walking down the street with cricket bats.  And I can&#8217;t even tell you what my feeling was at that time&#8230;just seeing the cricket bat was a big deal for me.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/newfoundland-labrador\/cricket-united-us-sport-s-revival-brews-camaraderie-in-newfoundland-and-labrador-1.3682392\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cbcnl\/videos\/10154392273617174\/?pnref=story\" target=\"_blank\">Video coverage (Facebook)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CBC Newfoundland Cricket, a sport similar to baseball, was once popular in Newfoundland and Labrador but went nearly extinct several years ago. Now it&#8217;s getting revived thanks to a new generation of players. Amit Sundly, secretary of Cricket Newfoundland and Labrador, came to St. John&#8217;s from India. To his surprise, he was swinging a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217"}],"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=9217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9218,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions\/9218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}