{"id":109,"date":"2008-06-01T04:11:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T11:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2008-06-01T04:16:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T11:16:08","slug":"the-english-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/01\/the-english-game\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ENGLISH GAME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve wasted the whole of my life playing this game.\u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s claimed my knees and it occupies every spare synapse in my brain.\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m not even sure I like it anymore&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Nightwatchmen: an amateur London cricket team, making up for in enthusiasm what they lack in ability.\u00c2\u00a0As they gather on a sunny Sunday to face Bernard and his ethnically diverse and highly talented squad, Will, Thiz, Clive and their team-mates spend the day smoking, drinking tea and discussing love, politics and the correct interpretation of the LBW law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/theenglishgame.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-110\" title=\"theenglishgame\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/theenglishgame.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/theenglishgame.jpg 490w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/theenglishgame-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richard Bean&#8217;s witty new play, The English Game, which explores the modern British psyche and sate of the nation through a simple game of cricket, is getting some good reviews and can be seen this coming week at the <a title=\"Oxford Playhouse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordplayhouse.com\/Calendar\/OPH\/view.asp?ID=458\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Playhouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve wasted the whole of my life playing this game.\u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s claimed my knees and it occupies every spare synapse in my brain.\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m not even sure I like it anymore&#8230;&#8221; The Nightwatchmen: an amateur London cricket team, making up for in enthusiasm what they lack in ability.\u00c2\u00a0As they gather on a sunny Sunday to face Bernard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}