{"id":12936,"date":"2018-08-27T18:24:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T18:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12936"},"modified":"2018-08-27T18:24:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T18:24:41","slug":"pakistans-baseball-team-use-their-cricket-skills-at-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12936","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s baseball team use their cricket skills at Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"66\">\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s baseball team has scored a win, beating Thailand at the Asian Games and benefitting from the country&#8217;s cricket heritage.<\/p>\n<p>There is a distinct crossover of skills needed for both sports, and most players on the team have a cricket background.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Scott Heidler reports from Jakarta, Indonesia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s baseball team has scored a win, beating Thailand at the Asian Games and benefitting from the country&#8217;s cricket heritage. There is a distinct crossover of skills needed for both sports, and most players on the team have a cricket background. \u00a0 Al Jazeera&#8217;s Scott Heidler reports from Jakarta, Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}