{"id":9291,"date":"2016-07-26T06:41:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T10:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=9291"},"modified":"2016-07-26T06:41:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T10:11:17","slug":"cricket-more-than-a-sport-for-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=9291","title":{"rendered":"Cricket more than a sport for most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Cousins for the Chronicle-Herald in Halifax:-<br \/>\n\u201cWhen you have people coming in as immigrants, it\u2019s really important to engage them and help them become a part of the community and sports like this (help),\u201d said Abraham Somavarapha, director for development with the Nova Scotia Cricket Association.<br \/>\n\u201cIn the long term, there\u2019s a huge role for organizations like the NSCA to take part in immigration programs and sport development programs.\u201d<br \/>\nThe cricket community helps in more ways than helping immigrants adjust to Canada.<br \/>\nSome more veteran players can help newcomers with language skills and have the connections to find them a good job.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m super impressed by the community they\u2019ve developed,\u201d said Somavarapha, who\u2019s been working with the NSCA for only a couple of months. \u201cIt\u2019s given me the opportunity to be a part of something that I love.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/sports\/1382952-cricket-more-than-a-sport-for-most\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Cousins for the Chronicle-Herald in Halifax:- \u201cWhen you have people coming in as immigrants, it\u2019s really important to engage them and help them become a part of the community and sports like this (help),\u201d said Abraham Somavarapha, director for development with the Nova Scotia Cricket Association. \u201cIn the long term, there\u2019s a huge role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291"}],"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=9291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9292,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291\/revisions\/9292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}