{"id":274,"date":"2021-05-16T17:36:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T17:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxford.lu\/?p=274"},"modified":"2025-01-03T17:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T17:52:14","slug":"cricket-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/2021\/05\/16\/cricket-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Cricket Picnic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Saturday July 3rd we enjoyed a wonderful afternoon at the Schuman farm sipping pimm&#8217;s while catching up after a long time not seeing each other face-to-face. <br>After a lengthy picnic &#8211; barbecue we decided to have crocquet game on the lawn, rather than the traditional cricket, among others due to the lack of cricketers.<br>The crocquet game was a huge success, and we ended up playing with three teams simultaneously, each consisting of a changing number of members, the youngest being 3 years old.<br>We discovered crocquet to be a game of skill, strategy and teamwork.  <br>The three teams battled for at least two hours, passing their balls through the hoops until finally, G\u00e9rard Schockmel scored the winning shot by placing his team&#8217;s final ball against the peg.<br>We thank Adrian for his hospitality, Fanny for her professional Croquet Set, and the organisers for the pimm&#8217;s and other drinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-298\" width=\"626\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-2.png 960w, https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-2-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-2-768x309.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-1.png\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-1.png\"><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-299\" width=\"632\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-3.png 540w, https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-3-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday July 3rd we enjoyed a wonderful afternoon at the Schuman farm sipping pimm&#8217;s while catching up after a long time not seeing each other face-to-face. After a lengthy picnic &#8211; barbecue we decided to have crocquet game on the lawn, rather than the traditional cricket, among others due to the lack of cricketers.The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/2021\/05\/16\/cricket-in-july\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Annual Cricket Picnic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}