{"id":5096,"date":"2016-03-28T17:23:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T10:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.rivertheme.com\/ri-everest\/?p=5096"},"modified":"2016-03-28T17:23:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T10:23:16","slug":"ringside-in-the-gym-15th-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ivytelles.com.br\/?p=5096","title":{"rendered":"Ringside in the Gym &#8211; 15th September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When he was eight years old, Amir Hussain Lone lost both his arms in an accident at his family&#8217;s saw mill in Indian-administered Kashmir. Now, at 26, he&#8217;s mastered cricket and is the captain of the Jammu and Kashmir para-cricket team.<\/p>\n<p>Before the tragedy I had no passion for cricket &#8211; it was only afterwards that my love for the sport began. I used to go to our neighbour&#8217;s home to watch games because we didn&#8217;t have a TV set at home, but then one day, when I was cheering on my favourite cricket players, they turned the TV set off and asked me to leave.<\/p>\n<p>That hurt me. I left, but I still wanted to watch the match. I ended up watching a whole innings from outside, spying through a crack in their window, and it was at that moment that my feelings for cricket crystallised and I pledged that I would play.<\/p>\n<p>I struggled hard to develop my technique, whether it was bowling or holding the bat. Thanks be to God, I have done pretty well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he was eight years old, Amir Hussain Lone lost both his arms in an accident at his family&#8217;s saw mill in Indian-administered Kashmir. Now, at 26, he&#8217;s mastered cricket&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ivytelles.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ivytelles.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ivytelles.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ivytelles.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ivytelles.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ivytelles.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ivytelles.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ivytelles.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ivytelles.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ivytelles.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}