{"id":97,"date":"2007-03-09T11:11:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T10:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2008-08-26T14:54:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T14:54:22","slug":"penguins-stopped-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/09\/penguins-stopped-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins Stopped Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"View product details at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=0719563453%26tag=manalangcom-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/0719563453%253FSubscriptionId=0EMV44A9A5YT1RVDGZ82\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/0719563453.02._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Cricketers Take on the World\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Kathryn bought me this book for Christmas and I read it on the train to and from a meeting in London last week.  I literally &#8211; no pun intended &#8211; read it from cover to cover in the 4 hours of travelling and I can highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s based on the exploits of a village cricket team who take themselves around the world playing in various exotic locations often finding themselves mismatched against area champions, teams with professionals and even entire countries!<\/p>\n<p>Not one for those who have no interest in cricket but I couldn&#8217;t help but compare the Captain Scott Invitation XI with the bunch of misfits that make up my team, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiffnorthern.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Cardiff Northern<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathryn bought me this book for Christmas and I read it on the train to and from a meeting in London last week. I literally &#8211; no pun intended &#8211; read it from cover to cover in the 4 hours of travelling and I can highly recommend it. It&#8217;s based on the exploits of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-dave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}