{"id":23423,"date":"2014-06-13T06:40:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T13:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=23423"},"modified":"2014-06-14T06:34:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T13:34:45","slug":"kelso-klassic-will-have-new-champ-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=23423","title":{"rendered":"Kelso Klassic will have new champ this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/kelso_mo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/kelso_mo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"kelso_mo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-23435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/kelso_mo-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/kelso_mo-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><em>By Ben Striker ~ Southeast Missourian<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The 14-team men&#8217;s fastpitch tournament begins today<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in four years, there will be a new Kelso Klassic champion.<\/p>\n<p>Pete&#8217;s Blues of Mascoutah, Illinois, the powerhouse squad that won the last three titles of the men&#8217;s fastpitch softball tournament, will not be around for the 30th annual event.<\/p>\n<p>The absence gives way to a wide-open field when play begins today at Kelso City Park, said tournament media coordinator Jerry Wolsey. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.semissourian.com\/story\/2091755.html\">Click here to continue reading story at the Southeast Missourian.<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ben Striker ~ Southeast Missourian The 14-team men&#8217;s fastpitch tournament begins today For the first time in four years, there will be a new Kelso Klassic champion. Pete&#8217;s Blues of Mascoutah, Illinois, the powerhouse squad that won the last three titles of the men&#8217;s fastpitch softball tournament, will not be around for the 30th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tournaments","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23436,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23423\/revisions\/23436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}