{"id":1640,"date":"2007-05-24T09:11:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T17:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2007-05-25T00:26:21","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T08:26:21","slug":"man-o-war-cay-welcomes-fastpitch-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"Man-O-War Cay Welcomes Fastpitch Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Mouse over top of screen for speed control, bottom for thumbnails)<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" align=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/slideShow\/index.gne?group_id=&#038;user_id=8394787@N07&#038;set_id=72157600259425193&#038;tags=BahamasFastpitch\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/><small>Created with <a href=\"http:\/\/paulstamatiou.com\" title=\"PaulStamatiou.com Tech News\/Reviews\/Guides\">Paul&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/flickrslidr.com\" title=\"flickrSLiDR\">flickrSLiDR<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Just a bit of the pre-tournament scenery around Man-O-War Cay, in the Bahamas, home of the Texaco Pirates, third place finisher at this year&#8217;s AAU Tournament.   Man-O-War Cay is located about an hour off the coast of Florida by plane, and 15 minute boat ride by boat.  The town has a New England feel to it, mixed with the warmer weather and water, with a reputation for building the finest boats in the Bahamas or anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>The young fellow you see riding his bike in the slide show above, and smiling at Lola&#8217;s Bakery is Aaron, who lives a couple of doors down from the ballpark.  We met him yesterday, and he showed us around town, first by leading our golf cart on his bike &#8212; then, after getting permission from his mother, along with us in our golf cart (Everyone on the island (Cay) gets around by golf cart.  The roads are well paved around town, a bit bumpier as you get out of town, but easy driving nonetheless. <\/p>\n<p>The opening shot is of the ubiquitous &#8220;conch&#8221; shell, taken from the beach just below the field.  (you can see the field in the background).  The Bahamas punch is maddy&#8217;s, the hammock mine.<\/p>\n<p>First game is tonight at 7pm.  We&#8217;ll be broadcasting on Saturday, watch here for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Mouse over top of screen for speed control, bottom for thumbnails) Created with Paul&#8217;s flickrSLiDR. Just a bit of the pre-tournament scenery around Man-O-War Cay, in the Bahamas, home of the Texaco Pirates, third place finisher at this year&#8217;s AAU Tournament. Man-O-War Cay is located about an hour off the coast of Florida by plane, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}