{"id":5609,"date":"2009-02-22T09:02:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T17:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2009-02-22T09:12:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T17:12:30","slug":"fanning-hits-the-pitch-for-the-brushfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5609","title":{"rendered":"Fanning Hits The Pitch For The Brushfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/0649833800.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/0649833800.jpg','popup','width=600,height=400,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/0649833800-tm.jpg\" height=\"286\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"0,,6498338,00\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mick Fanning<\/strong>, the 2007 ASP world champion hit the cricket pitch yesterday with former <strong>Midnight Oil<\/strong> singer <strong>Peter Garrett<\/strong> and other Australian celebrities for a match to raise money for the victims of Australia&#8217;s deadly brushfires, according to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/dailytelegraph\/story\/0,22049,25092295-5006069,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">News.com.au<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While it was played in good humour, the reason why they were there could not be missed. &#8220;The generosity from Australians following this terrible event has been incredible,&#8221; Garrett said. &#8220;A total vindication of that deep spirit of commitment and mateship that we have. The fact we can be on the SCG, on a Sunday afternoon, with a game of cricket, with captains of the calibre of Steve Waugh and Mark Taylor &#8230; we live in a harsh land, but we have generous hearts.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More than 20,000 people showed up for a game we still don&#8217;t understand. Reading about cricket reminded us how most people must feel reading about snowboarding, surfing, and skating. It&#8217;s like those cricket plays have their own language. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/dailytelegraph\/story\/0,22049,25092295-5006069,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">News.com.au<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mick Fanning, the 2007 ASP world champion hit the cricket pitch yesterday with former Midnight Oil singer Peter Garrett and other Australian celebrities for a match to raise money for the victims of Australia&#8217;s deadly brushfires, according to News.com.au. While it was played in good humour, the reason why they were there could not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5613,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}