{"id":242,"date":"2015-10-19T16:27:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T16:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/rwanda2015\/?p=242"},"modified":"2015-10-19T16:27:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T16:27:01","slug":"day-13-pitches-and-popstars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/rwanda2015\/2015\/10\/19\/day-13-pitches-and-popstars\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 13 &#8211; Pitches and Popstars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday started with another festival, this time at the St Andree school, which to everybody&#8217;s surprise turned out to have a full size astro turf football pitch! After some of the surfaces we&#8217;ve coached on in the last fortnight we almost didn&#8217;t know what to do with all the space. The festival took the form of a rapid fire tournament for primary and secondary schools. The standard of cricket from all schools was fantastic and all of the teams could be proud of their performance.<\/p>\n<p>After \u00a0lunch we headed to Ndera for our last coaching session of the trip. As we arrived a music video was being filmed for a Rwandan popstar by the name of NPC (apparently). I have to say he didn&#8217;t seem to convince any of the CWB crew but I&#8217;m not sure we&#8217;re in his target demographic. Once NPC had headed home we managed to set up a cricket match which allowed the Ndera pupils to show their ability. This is a school that loves its cricket and it really shows. It was a great session to finish on, showing the progress that is being made in Rwandan cricket, something CWB has played a huge part in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ben<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday started with another festival, this time at the St Andree school, which to everybody&#8217;s surprise turned out to have a full size astro turf football pitch! After some of the surfaces we&#8217;ve coached on in the last fortnight we almost didn&#8217;t know what to do with all the space. The festival took the form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/rwanda2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/rwanda2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/rwanda2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/rwanda2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/rwanda2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/rwanda2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/rwanda2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/rwanda2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/rwanda2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/rwanda2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/rwanda2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}