{"id":302092,"date":"2025-12-06T21:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/302092\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:02:07","slug":"conrad-regrets-but-does-not-apologise-for-grovel-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/302092\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrad regrets, but does not apologise for grovel comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grovel&#8217;s cricket context was tainted by the stink of racism in Greig&#8217;s comment, and has remained so. Greig was a white South African, a product and beneficiary of apartheid. Had he been born any other race he likely wouldn&#8217;t have had a professional cricket career, or &#8211; like the brown Basil D&#8217;Oliveira did &#8211; he would have had to leave South Africa to pursue his dream. Greig also left South Africa; because he wanted to, not because that was his only choice. De Oliveira didn&#8217;t have a choice if he wanted to play the game professionally, which was the preserve of whites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grovel&#8217;s cricket context was tainted by the stink of racism in Greig&#8217;s comment, and has remained so. Greig&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2325,1721,4247,107481,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-302092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-2325","tag-cricket","tag-south-africa","tag-south-africa-tour-of-india","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}