{"id":612,"date":"2016-05-20T03:10:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T03:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2016-05-20T03:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T03:10:25","slug":"first-day-of-the-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"First day of the Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Followed the likes of Selvey, Bumble and Aggers and co on Twitter as they woke up under grey Leeds skies to report on the Tests. Sorry that Cook couldn&#8217;t put on another 20 to hit 10,000. What an achievement that will be when it happens, possibly in the next innings.<\/p>\n<p>Watched the second session with M.O&#8217;Donnell of Melbourne (not related to Simon of late 80s Ashes fame \u00a0&#8211; I&#8217;ve asked him). He brought the team luck as Bairstow and Hales rode the storm. Looking forward to clocking in later and watching our boys try and post something decent.<\/p>\n<p>Cricket was apparently ruined for Martin O&#8217;Donnell when he learnt as a schoolboy that whilst a fielder may take a catch, it is the bowler who really receives the credit. On which note, the Sri Lankans held their chances yesterday, catches win matches,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Followed the likes of Selvey, Bumble and Aggers and co on Twitter as they woke up under grey Leeds skies to report on the Tests. Sorry that Cook couldn&#8217;t put on another 20 to hit 10,000. What an achievement that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/?p=612\">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-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}