{"id":11334,"date":"2012-06-07T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=11334"},"modified":"2012-06-01T17:08:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T00:08:40","slug":"cricket-was-originally-played-with-a-stick-that-resembled-a-hockey-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/cricket-was-originally-played-with-a-stick-that-resembled-a-hockey-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket was Originally Played with a Stick that Resembled a Hockey Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cricket-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11335\" title=\"cricket-facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cricket-facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cricket-facts.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cricket-facts-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cricket was originally played with a stick that more or less looked like a hockey stick.\u00a0Bowlers, at the time, typically kept the ball on the ground or at least skimmed the ground, instead of pitching the ball as they do today.\u00a0 As a response to the change towards pitching and bouncing the ball, in the late 18th century the straight bat was introduced and is still used to this day.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Origin of the Name of the Sport Cricket\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/origin-of-the-name-of-the-sport-cricket\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket was originally played with a stick that more or less looked like a hockey stick.\u00a0Bowlers, at the time, typically kept the ball on the ground or at least skimmed the ground, instead of pitching the ball as they do today.\u00a0 As a response to the change towards pitching and bouncing the ball, in the late 18th century the straight [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11337,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334\/revisions\/11337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}