{"id":376,"date":"2004-06-09T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/376\/"},"modified":"2004-06-09T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-09T11:33:00","slug":"376","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/376\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/cricket\/3766273.stm\">BBC SPORT | Cricket | Pro cricket hits the USA<\/a>.  I just read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0349116660\/alexanthegreatsf\/\">Playing Hard Ball: County Cricket and Big League Baseball<\/a>&#8220;, Ed Smith&#8217;s book about Baseball and Cricket.  Very interesting.   Then I see this stoy on the BBC web site.  I really think that our American cousins might take to Twenty20 &#8211; it is perfect for the American audience.  Heaven help us that the US might win the World Cup in 2019 (which will be in Twenty20 format by then&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC SPORT | Cricket | Pro cricket hits the USA. I just read &#8220;Playing Hard Ball: County Cricket and Big League Baseball&#8220;, Ed Smith&#8217;s book about Baseball and Cricket. Very interesting. Then I see this stoy on the BBC web site. I really think that our American cousins might take to Twenty20 &#8211; it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/376\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}