{"id":941,"date":"2009-07-08T20:32:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T10:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=941"},"modified":"2009-07-09T00:46:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T14:46:48","slug":"and-so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"And so it begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 331px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cricketnews.com.au\/images\/the-ashes-urn1.jpg\" alt=\"The urn: as small as a hamster\" width=\"321\" height=\"500\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The urn: as small as a hamster<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cricket&#8217;s oldest rivalry has just got under way as the Mighty England face the expelled convicts from years passed..<\/p>\n<p>Alot has been made in the build up of this 5-test series with the Aussies having smashed England the last time they played in Australia 5-0.. \u00a0But with most of the Aussies&#8217; best players retiring after that series and the new comers having about as much combined test experience as the FATwebsite, the games are set to be delicately poised.. I am very much looking forward to this series as I will be spending the first two tests in the UK then for the other three I will be in the enemy territory having to wake up at ungodly hours to watch seemingly endless hours cricket&#8230; brilliant!<\/p>\n<p>With the first test starting today (ending on sunday) in Cardiff, the conditions of the pitch are suited to spin bowling. Its a good thing that the Aussies, now without Shane Warne, can&#8217;t spin a top.. and we have monty!<\/p>\n<p>Cue this:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2007\/03_03\/CricketPanesar_468x366.jpg\" alt=\"Panesar: as agile as a hamster\" width=\"468\" height=\"366\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monty Panesar: as agile as a hamster<\/p><\/div>\n<p>and this:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/republiquecricket.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/ponting-fail.jpg\" alt=\"Ponting: about as talented as a hamster\" width=\"500\" height=\"462\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ricky Ponting: the leadership of a hamster<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsters.co.uk\/hamsters_images\/hamster_1301300.jpg\" alt=\"Squiggles: a hamster\" width=\"275\" height=\"350\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Squiggles: a hamster<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Oh and one more thing&#8230; &#8220;get your stars off our flag!&#8221; \u00a0\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket&#8217;s oldest rivalry has just got under way as the Mighty England face the expelled convicts from years passed.. Alot has been made in the build up of this 5-test series with the Aussies having smashed England the last time they played in Australia 5-0.. \u00a0But with most of the Aussies&#8217; best players retiring after &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[306],"class_list":["post-941","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\/941","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}