{"id":11546,"date":"2022-08-12T07:44:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T06:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=11546"},"modified":"2022-08-12T07:50:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T06:50:48","slug":"the-cricket-matches-of-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/12\/the-cricket-matches-of-august-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cricket Matches of August"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It has been ten years since I visited this cricket ground<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nothing\u00a0much has changed\u00a0apart from the clubhouse<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Which has enjoyed a lick of paint and now looks quite splendid<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Although I do not drink I was given a local ale on my arrival<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As I am well remembered in these parts as I once hit thirty-six<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Off six balls in a cricket match played during a summer storm<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My club tie is still displayed in the bar next to a faded photograph<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I am sitting on the boundary near the railway line under an oak tree<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But I can only hear the trains pass by as my view is obscured by the high grasses<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Which have grown here since the bombing in August 1942 which destroyed the equipment sheds<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Local legends note that a German pilot was trying to bomb the railway line but missed<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And blew the sheds the mowers and a few unlucky benches into the next county instead<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Cricket balls are often lost here due to the inaccessibility of this neglected area<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And are noted in the score book as<i> Ball Lost due to Enemy Action<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been ten years since I visited this cricket ground Nothing\u00a0much has changed\u00a0apart from the clubhouse Which has enjoyed a lick of paint and now looks quite splendid Although I do not drink I was given a local ale on my arrival As I am well remembered in these parts as I once hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11546"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11550,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11546\/revisions\/11550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}