{"id":63154,"date":"2015-02-12T08:35:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T16:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63154"},"modified":"2015-02-12T08:39:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T16:39:52","slug":"can-indians-be-the-best-in-the-world-at-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63154","title":{"rendered":"Can Indians Be The Best In The World At Something?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indians are not a formidable people. About <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Raj\">60,000 British soldiers ruled the continent for decades<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In this forthcoming <A HREF=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/video\/clip?id=12300578\">ESPN documentary<\/a> on Indian cricket batsman Sachin Tendulkar, an Indian sports commentator says that &#8220;Tendulkar shows we can be the best in the world at something.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>When a country of 1.2 billion people has to grasp for something it is best at the world in, you know you are not dealing with a fearsome group. <\/p>\n<p>The World Cup of cricket starts in Australia in a few days. <A HREF=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/espn\/feature\/story\/_\/id\/12137896\/cricket-world-cup-explainer-animation\">Here&#8217;s a two-minute primer on cricket<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indians are not a formidable people. About 60,000 British soldiers ruled the continent for decades. In this forthcoming ESPN documentary on Indian cricket batsman Sachin Tendulkar, an Indian sports commentator says that &#8220;Tendulkar shows we can be the best in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63154\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15903,29647],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cricket","category-india-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63158,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63154\/revisions\/63158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}