{"id":1262,"date":"2026-08-17T08:44:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:44:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:44:37","slug":"august-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/?p=1262","title":{"rendered":"August musings."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m looking forward to the Test against Pakistan, although it seems Emilio Gay may not be opening as things didn&#8217;t go well in Beckenham, a ground I&#8217;d like to visit. Perhaps next season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Hundred came and went. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good articles in Saturday&#8217;s Telegraph by Nick Hoult and Will Macpherson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Geoff Boycott waxing lyrical about his Mum&#8217;s comments about him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sam Billings&#8217; fortunes and misfortunes ~ his new team in the 100 couldn&#8217;t quite get over the line last night, but he&#8217;ll&#8217;ve made the Mumbai Indians London Administration eat humble pie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Started reading &#8216;Cricket&#8217;s Lighter Side&#8217; which is just lovely. It&#8217;s sat on the shelf for the best part of four decades. It was a treat to find out the autograph at the front of the book is that of none other than &#8220;Fiery&#8221; Fred Trueman.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To cricket!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to the Test against Pakistan, although it seems Emilio Gay may not be opening as things didn&#8217;t go well in Beckenham, a ground I&#8217;d like to visit. Perhaps next season. The Hundred came and went. Good articles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/?p=1262\">Continue reading <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-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}