{"id":5026,"date":"2022-12-26T08:27:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T02:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=267365"},"modified":"2022-12-26T08:27:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T02:57:23","slug":"aus-vs-sa-iconic-mcg-honours-spin-king-shane-warne-during-boxing-day-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/aus-vs-sa-iconic-mcg-honours-spin-king-shane-warne-during-boxing-day-test\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS vs SA: Iconic MCG honours spin king Shane Warne during Boxing Day Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian veteran and spin king Shane Warne was honoured moments before the Boxing Day Test between Australia and South Africa took place.<\/p>\n<p>Legendary icon Shane Warne was remember as the cricket fraternity along with thousands of fans, wore the famous \u2018white floppy hat\u2019 to honour the favourite of all \u2013 Warne.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s second Test is the first in Melbourne since Warne\u2019s shock passing in March.<\/p>\n<p>During the playing of the national anthem, players from Australia and South Africa wore white floppy hats to honour Warne as a video montage of the legendary Victorian player was shown on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of fans arrived at the MCG this morning wearing the iconic hats, many of whom paid respects to Warne at his statue outside the renowned stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian veteran and spin king Shane Warne was honoured moments before the Boxing Day Test between Australia and South Africa\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3431,1346,1092,782],"class_list":["post-5026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-australia","tag-boxing-day-test","tag-mcg","tag-shane-warne"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}