{"id":5637,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5637"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","slug":"thoughts-on-the-steve-smith-affair","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/thoughts-on-the-steve-smith-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the Steve Smith Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Thoughts on the Steve Smith Affair<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 25, 2018.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWe all saw Steve Smith at his meeting<br \/>\nAnd winced as his pride took a beating<br \/>\nBut the press missed one thought<br \/>\nFor the first time in sport<br \/>\nAn Aussie said he can&#8217;t win without cheating!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nWhile many people have been distracted by events in the real world, terrorist<br \/>\nmurders in France, millions of US children demanding sanity from their<br \/>\ngovernment, idiot UK politicians squabbling and more, important events have<br \/>\noccurred in South Africa. The Australian test team have been caught cheating.<br \/>\nNot in a spur of the moment way, but discussed by the senior players and given<br \/>\nto the most junior player to carry out.<br \/>\nCricket matters to Australians, and Australians love to jump on any other<br \/>\nnation&#8217;s players who have strayed from the rules while playing their own<br \/>\nheroes. The Australian Prime Minister and other senior politicians have been<br \/>\nexpressing their shock and disgust. I may be the only person to think that the<br \/>\ninadvertent humility of an Australian captain is worth celebrating!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts on the Steve Smith Affair by cricketjeff on March 25, 2018.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved We all saw Steve Smith at his meeting And winced as his pride took a beating But the press missed one thought For the first time in sport An Aussie said he can&#8217;t win without cheating! Author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5637","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5870,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5637\/revisions\/5870"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}