{"id":32346,"date":"2017-02-06T00:45:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T00:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/south-africa-v-sri-lanka-bees-stop-play-in-third\/"},"modified":"2017-02-06T00:45:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T00:45:48","slug":"south-africa-v-sri-lanka-bees-stop-play-in-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/south-africa-v-sri-lanka-bees-stop-play-in-third\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa v Sri Lanka: Bees stop play in third ODI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A swarm of bees stopped play midway through Sri Lanka&#8217;s innings in the third one-day international against South Africa in Johannesburg.}<\/p>\n<p>The bees disrupted play twice &#8211; sending players diving to the ground &#8211; before the game was officially stopped in the 27th over, with Sri Lanka on 117-4.<\/p>\n<p>A groundsman used a fire extinguisher to try to disperse the bees, before a beekeeper was called to the Wanderers.<\/p>\n<p>Play restarted over an hour later and South Africa won by seven wickets.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18024 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_93954752_beess.jpg\" alt=\"Bees found a home on wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock&#039;s helmet\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18025 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_93954743_fire_afp.jpg\" alt=\"A groundsman uses a fire extinguisher to disperse the bees at the Wanderers\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A swarm of bees stopped play midway through Sri Lanka&#8217;s innings in the third one-day international against South Africa in Johannesburg.} The bees disrupted play twice &#8211; sending players diving to the ground &#8211; before the game was officially stopped in the 27th over, with Sri Lanka on 117-4. A groundsman used a fire extinguisher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32346"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32346"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}