{"id":4037,"date":"2010-05-07T23:28:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T06:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2010-05-07T23:28:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T06:28:59","slug":"rupp-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4037","title":{"rendered":"Rupp Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?#!\/photo.php?pid=48297&#038;id=100001053702742\"><img src=\"http:\/\/hphotos-sjc1.fbcdn.net\/hs556.snc3\/30414_105764409468682_100001053702742_48297_2817908_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>(click photo for Facebook page)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rupp&#8217;s caption:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGerald, it has just been brought to my attention that I&#8217;ve been named as a party in a law suit filed by Disney studios and Tarrant Hightopp AKA the &#8220;Mad Hatter&#8221; The law suit alleges that I have fitted you with so many hats it is now threatening Mr Hightopp&#8217;s reputation and livelyhood by infringing upon his schtick. Please quit allowing me to &#8220;Hat Trick&#8221; you everytime we meet. My attorney has advised me not to throw rise balls and change ups to you anymore to avoid any further litigation .\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click photo for Facebook page) Rupp&#8217;s caption: Gerald, it has just been brought to my attention that I&#8217;ve been named as a party in a law suit filed by Disney studios and Tarrant Hightopp AKA the &#8220;Mad Hatter&#8221; The law suit alleges that I have fitted you with so many hats it is now threatening [&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\/4037"}],"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=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}