{"id":296,"date":"2007-04-05T00:09:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T18:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2007\/04\/05\/cricketers-will-never-never-never-be-slaves\/"},"modified":"2007-04-05T00:09:25","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T18:39:25","slug":"cricketers-will-never-never-never-be-slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/05\/cricketers-will-never-never-never-be-slaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricketers Will Never, Never, Never Be Slaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/krishworld.com\/politics\/krish\/society\/indian-kerry-packer-and-end-of-cricket\/\">The Jagathguru says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I hope cricket doesn\u2019t follow the same path. Already the game of cricket is more about money than the actual game itself. If this initiative succeeds, it will be only money where the slaves (cricketers playing for the team owners) will fight out for the kings (team owners).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Three posts later, <a href=\"http:\/\/krishworld.com\/politics\/krish\/india-general\/chappell-has-to-go-but-seniors-should-be-made-to-pay\/\">the Jagathguru also says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The board should make the players pay for their failures. They cannot take their places for granted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You might conclude that he is advocating that the players be slaves to the board instead of slaves of club or league owners. But that is only because you are free market fundamentalists. You cannot Think Deeply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jagathguru says: I hope cricket doesn\u2019t follow the same path. Already the game of cricket is more about money than the actual game itself. If this initiative succeeds, it will be only money where the slaves (cricketers playing for the team owners) will fight out for the kings (team owners). Three posts later, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirder-than-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-4M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}