{"id":1017,"date":"2003-03-18T16:25:01","date_gmt":"2003-03-19T08:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/19\/india-vs-new-zealand\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T23:16:08","slug":"india-vs-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/18\/india-vs-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"India vs. New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15091,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/sport.guardian.co.uk\\\/cricketworldcup2003\\\/overbyover\\\/story\\\/0,12864,914033,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/sport.guardian.co.uk\\\/cricketworldcup2003\\\/overbyover\\\/story\\\/0,12864,914033,00.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Ever wondered what would happen if an English sports writer lost it while posting to a live website while covering a cricket match?<\/p>\n<p>Well, okay, neither did I. But <a href=\"http:\/\/sport.guardian.co.uk\/cricketworldcup2003\/overbyover\/story\/0,12864,914033,00.html\" title=\"India vs. New Zealand: the NZ innings\">now we know&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  It&#8217;s really simple: India are already through, New Zealand have to win.<\/p>\n<p>  Meanwhile, have you ever thought WHAT SORT OF LIFE IS THIS AND WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING BOARDING A TRAIN FOR MOORGATE AT 6.30 IN THE MORNING AND THEN STANDING AROUND FOR AGES WAITING FOR A TUBE WHILE STARING AT A SIGN TELLING YOU THAT IF YOU WAIT FOR FOUR MINUTES YOU CAN BOARD A TRAIN TO UXBRIDGE I&#8217;D RATHER WAIT FOUR HOURS FOR A JOURNEY WITH THE GRIM REAPER QUITE FRANKLY&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The entire thing is <em>so<\/em> worth reading. First the initial outburst, then the rest of the article is cricket commentary mixed with his responses to his readers&#8217; messages. Wonderfully hilarious, and very honest.<\/p>\n<p>If all sports writing were like this, I might pay attention more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered what would happen if an English sports writer lost it while posting to a live website while covering a cricket match?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}