{"id":2654,"date":"2014-06-09T20:36:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T13:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2014-06-09T20:36:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T13:36:11","slug":"pietersen-relieved-to-be-out-of-england-dressing-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/cricket\/pietersen-relieved-to-be-out-of-england-dressing-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Pietersen &#8220;relieved&#8221; to be out of England dressing-room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As England prepare to start their summer of Test cricket on Thursday, Kevin Pietersen has said that he is relieved to be out of the England dressing-room, claiming the &#8220;environment was poor&#8221; during England&#8217;s shambolic Ashes winter.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that, contrary to some things that have been written, in particular the suggestion from England&#8217;s managing director Paul Downton that he was &#8220;disengaged&#8221;, his relationship with team-mates &#8220;was fine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Pietersen was dropped for good by England&#8217;s selectors after the series, a decision which continues to divide the cricket public, but in his first ghosted column with the Telegraph he said he, at least, had &#8220;moved on with my life&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/ci\/content\/story\/751129.html\" title=\"Read more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; Cricket News &#8211; England &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/category\/cricket\/\" title=\"Cricket\">Cricket<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As England prepare to start their summer of Test cricket on Thursday, Kevin Pietersen has said that he is relieved to be out of the England dressing-room, claiming the &#8220;environment was poor&#8221; during England&#8217;s shambolic Ashes winter. He also said that, contrary to some things that have been written, in particular the suggestion from England&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[825,1269,189,111,822,823,824,827,165,30,826,114,120,80,188,519,806],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-ashes","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-england","tag-england-cricket","tag-england-dressing-room","tag-england-dressing-room-environment-was-poor","tag-england-selectors","tag-kevin-pietersen","tag-news","tag-paul-downton","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-test-cricket","tag-the-telegraph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}