{"id":3903,"date":"2010-02-20T19:35:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T02:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2010-02-20T19:37:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T02:37:31","slug":"3903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3903","title":{"rendered":"Props for Palazzo from Hometown Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.Fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/Matt.Palazzo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(photo by Maddy Flanagan)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20100220\/SPORTS13\/100220017\/-1\/caucusright\/In-the-Loop-Softball-inline-skating-and-more\"><strong>From the Des Moines register<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SELECT SOFTBALL COMPANY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Few would be surprised to hear that Olympics star Jennie Finch was named USA Softball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s female athlete of the year for 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Softball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s male athlete of the year, however, received little notice \u00e2\u20ac\u201d until now.<\/p>\n<p>Des Moines player Matt Palazzo led the national team to a fourth-place finish at the ISF Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s World Championships in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Palazzo led the team with a .444 average and four home runs, while driving in 11 runs and scoring nine times as the team finished 7-3.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153To wear red, white and blue and represent your country is such an amazing thing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Palazzo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo by Maddy Flanagan) From the Des Moines register SELECT SOFTBALL COMPANY Few would be surprised to hear that Olympics star Jennie Finch was named USA Softball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s female athlete of the year for 2009. Softball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s male athlete of the year, however, received little notice \u00e2\u20ac\u201d until now. Des Moines player Matt Palazzo led the national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903"}],"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=3903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}