{"id":43810,"date":"2014-12-02T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T01:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=43810"},"modified":"2014-12-02T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T01:00:26","slug":"playing-the-odds-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=43810","title":{"rendered":"Playing the odds in life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TWO cricket fatalities in a week, and it is much too much. The unlikely deaths on the pitch of Australian batsman Phillip Hughes in Sydney, and Israeli umpire Hillel Oscar in Ashdod, last week have reestablished a stern reminder about the unpredictability of life. And the might of divine power. Cricket, a sport played at a snails pace, has forever been regarded as a gentlemans game played by gentlemen with the least conceivable propensity to cause bodily injury, except perhaps a peeling skin as a result of sunburn. So, it came as a big shock to learn about the misfortune.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1rPsWMz\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWO cricket fatalities in a week, and it is much too much. The unlikely deaths on the pitch of Australian batsman Phillip Hughes in Sydney,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43811,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43810\/revisions\/43811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}