{"id":328,"date":"2005-07-04T10:45:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T18:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=328"},"modified":"2005-07-04T11:34:28","modified_gmt":"2005-07-04T19:34:28","slug":"david-blackburn-in-israel-for-17th-world-maccabiah-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"David Blackburn in Israel for 17th World Maccabiah Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ballparkradio.com\/about_streaming_audio.htm\">David Blackburn<\/a>, the fastball pitcher that put men&#8217;s fastball &#8220;on the air&#8221;, by establishing and heading up Streaming Media for the I.S.C. (International Softball Congress), just arrived in Israel for the 17th World Maccabiah Games, July 11-21 in Tel Aviv, Israel.   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwitimes.com\/articles\/2005\/07\/03\/sports\/region_sports\/df6e075ad0b39acf86257032007cac96.txt\">The NWTimes in Indiana has a nice piece about David<\/a> in their news today.    An excerpt, courtesy of writer Mike Nieto, NWTimes.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blackburn will make history at the 17th World Maccabiah Games, which run July 11-21 in Tel Aviv, Israel. There he will become the first Maccabiah athlete from the U.S. to compete in five different World Games, all in fast-pitch softball. Blackburn&#8217;s late father, Ernie, was a well-known softball player in the Hammond Civic Center and various leagues, and is a member of the Hammond Sports Hall of Fame.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwitimes.com\/articles\/2005\/07\/03\/sports\/region_sports\/df6e075ad0b39acf86257032007cac96.txt\">Click here to read the whole story.<\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Blackburn, the fastball pitcher that put men&#8217;s fastball &#8220;on the air&#8221;, by establishing and heading up Streaming Media for the I.S.C. (International Softball Congress), just arrived in Israel for the 17th World Maccabiah Games, July 11-21 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The NWTimes in Indiana has a nice piece about David in their news today. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}