{"id":11051,"date":"2016-01-01T23:12:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T23:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11051"},"modified":"2021-03-01T20:29:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T20:29:11","slug":"the-fickle-finger-of-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11051","title":{"rendered":"The fickle finger of fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m no longer able to continue inflicting my idiosyncratic style of cricket on the world, owing to my much-surgeried left knee, I have decided to make a switch of direction.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in January I shall be training to be an ECB-certified cricket umpire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11052\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Umpire1.jpg\" alt=\"Umpire1\" width=\"466\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Umpire1.jpg 466w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Umpire1-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Umpire1-248x150.jpg 248w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Umpire1-150x91.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The course is being held at Trent Bridge, which is very convenient.<\/p>\n<p>Once I&#8217;ve been fully trained, I&#8217;ll be able to umpire cricket matches at various ECB levels.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to stay calm and not get too carried away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11053\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Umpire2.jpg\" alt=\"Umpire2\" width=\"540\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Umpire2.jpg 540w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Umpire2-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Umpire2-221x150.jpg 221w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Umpire2-150x102.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But there will be occasions when a difficult decision calls for, you know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11054\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Umpire3-729x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Umpire3\" width=\"729\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Umpire3.jpg 729w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Umpire3-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Umpire3-107x150.jpg 107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m no longer able to continue inflicting my idiosyncratic style of cricket on the world, owing to my much-surgeried left knee, I have decided<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}