{"id":958,"date":"2022-01-16T13:31:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T13:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/?p=958"},"modified":"2022-01-16T13:31:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T13:31:26","slug":"the-ashes-21-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 21\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not so much roaring into the 20s as slinking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We all love The Ashes but we&#8217;ve not won Down Under an awful lot in my lifetime. I turned on my Christmas present of a radio on Boxing Day 1986 to hear that Botham and Small had both taken five apiece. Happy Days. I think the next high point was when I watched KP on TV (C4) tonking it about in 2005. Big gap. Big shame. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There must be people out there who have followed the England team, and chosen 86\/87 and 10\/11 as tours to follow. I would not only like to go to the Casino with them, but listen to their share tips and and horses to back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do we take from a tour like that? Here are a list of one word \/ short rhetorical questions :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foakes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Selection?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Training in Aus?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blame Covid?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Win or lose, I still love listening to TMS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so much roaring into the 20s as slinking. We all love The Ashes but we&#8217;ve not won Down Under an awful lot in my lifetime. I turned on my Christmas present of a radio on Boxing Day 1986 to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/?p=958\">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-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","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=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}