{"id":3751,"date":"2011-01-03T12:34:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T02:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2011-01-03T12:35:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T02:35:10","slug":"the-ashes-game-four-checkmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=3751","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes Game Four &#8211; Checkmate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/englandretains.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3752\" title=\"englandretains\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/englandretains.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/englandretains.jpg 746w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/englandretains-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For some reason, I guess I forgot to blog about the end of the fourth game in the Ashes.\u00a0 Anyway, its not like there was much to write about.\u00a0 Australia were bowled out for 108 in a truly awful first innings batting collapse and England went on to hand them a second crushing defeat where they won by more than an innings and secured the Ashes once again.\u00a0 Failing to perform with the bat and losing the Ashes for an unprecedented third time as Australian captain, Ricky Ponting is expected to either stand down or be given his marching orders at the end of this series.<\/p>\n<p>Well played to England, they deserved to win.\u00a0 They were clearly the better side.\u00a0 Lets not carried away though, its just test cricket.\u00a0 Lets see how they fare when we get down to the <em>serious business<\/em> of Twenty20 exhibition matches in February!\u00a0 Um&#8230;yeah, thats about all I got.<\/p>\n<p>Farewell Punter.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been pretty forgettable these last eighteen months but you were an awesome player for the better part of a decade so thats something we can all look back on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pointingcry.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3753\" title=\"pointingcry\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pointingcry.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pointingcry.gif 330w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pointingcry-300x169.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, I guess I forgot to blog about the end of the fourth game in the Ashes.\u00a0 Anyway, its not like there was much to write about.\u00a0 Australia were bowled out for 108 in a truly awful first innings batting collapse and England went on to hand them a second crushing defeat where &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[306],"class_list":["post-3751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ashes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3755,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}