{"id":2167,"date":"2007-07-22T23:02:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T23:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2007-07-22T23:02:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T23:02:58","slug":"a-new-technique-for-staying-in-form-as-a-batter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2167","title":{"rendered":"A new technique for staying in form as a batter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve found it today on the cricket field. It was the first time I&#8217;ve played in a year, no practice, and I batted better than I have in years &#8211; so don&#8217;t play, don&#8217;t practice, then just go out there.<\/p>\n<p>And I got to see probably the best legspin bowling I&#8217;ve ever seen, from the sharp end, and survived the experience, if only by an inelegant scramble of bat, pad and any other bit of the body that came in handy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve found it today on the cricket field. It was the first time I&#8217;ve played in a year, no practice, and I batted better than I have in years &#8211; so don&#8217;t play, don&#8217;t practice, then just go out there. And I got to see probably the best legspin bowling I&#8217;ve ever seen, [&hellip;]<\/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-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}