{"id":398,"date":"2009-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/05\/playing-cricket-3-miles-up\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:37:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:37:12","slug":"playing-cricket-3-miles-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/05\/playing-cricket-3-miles-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing cricket, 3 miles up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Hockey League accomplishes something really special whenever it stages an outdoor hockey game in temperatures so frigid they would emasculate a simian forged from zinc and copper.  Yet as impressive as that may be, there is a cricket team in England that is about to do them one better.  The lads are going to play a cricket match on Mount Everest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will take the players nine days of mountain-climbing to reach their playing field, an artificial pitch on the Gorak Shep plateau in Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>In the process, they hope to raise more than $350,000 for the Himalayan Trust UK and other charities.<\/p>\n<p>Said one cricketeer, Mark Butcher: &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty bonkers, but anything that&#8217;s out there raising money for good causes is terrific.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scaling the world&#8217;s tallest mountain is treacherous work, and altitude sickness poses a genuine problem for the players.  A medical team will be accompanying them.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/article\/20090205\/ARTICLE\/902050305\/2193\/SPORTS?Title=Playing_cricket__3_miles_up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-make-you-smile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}