{"id":2824,"date":"2008-08-18T14:57:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T21:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2824"},"modified":"2008-08-18T15:19:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T22:19:27","slug":"asa-cancels-40-and-over-nationals-for-second-year-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2824","title":{"rendered":"ASA Cancels 40-and-over Nationals for Second Year in a Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.asasoftball.com\/images\/home_top_left.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ASA, the National Governing Body for Softball, including men&#8217;s fastpitch, canceled the Men&#8217;s 40-and-over Nationals.  Last yeasr&#8217;s 40-and-over and 45-and-over were canceled due to &#8220;lack of interest&#8221;.   No details were available as to why the event was canceled this year.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Masters ballplayers looking for a place to compete can find information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nafafastpitch.com\/2007_masters_zones.htm\"><strong>NAFA website, including this page.<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nafafastpitch.com\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.nafafastpitch.com\/PicsImages\/NewNAFALogoSmall-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>(click logo for NAFA website)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ASA, the National Governing Body for Softball, including men&#8217;s fastpitch, canceled the Men&#8217;s 40-and-over Nationals. Last yeasr&#8217;s 40-and-over and 45-and-over were canceled due to &#8220;lack of interest&#8221;. No details were available as to why the event was canceled this year. Editor&#8217;s note: Masters ballplayers looking for a place to compete can find information on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824"}],"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=2824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}