{"id":11989,"date":"2022-03-15T14:03:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T13:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=11989"},"modified":"2022-03-15T14:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T13:03:27","slug":"2021-merit-winner-phil-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=11989","title":{"rendered":"2021 Merit Winner &#8211; Phil Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Phil Jones of St Georges won the 2021 SPBL Merit for the John Coxil Trophy. He beat the current holder Liam Stevens on the Bowring 14 as he came back from any early 10-4 and 12-8 deficit to win 14, running out from 14-12 down. In the Semi Finals he defeated Tim Jordan 12, running out from 15-12 up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_5615.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_5615-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_5615-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_5615-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_5615-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_5615-450x600.png 450w, https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_5615-800x1067.png 800w, https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_5615.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Phil receiving the trophy from League Competitions Secretary Martin Gaut. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Jones of St Georges won the 2021 SPBL Merit for the John Coxil Trophy. He beat the current holder Liam Stevens on the Bowring 14 as he came back from any early 10-4 and 12-8 deficit to win 14, running out from 14-12 down. In the Semi Finals he defeated Tim Jordan 12, running &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[113,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5VaGi-37n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11993,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989\/revisions\/11993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}