{"id":4047,"date":"2010-05-09T11:21:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T18:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4047"},"modified":"2010-05-09T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T19:23:53","slug":"hastings-merchants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4047","title":{"rendered":"Hastings Merchants &#8211; Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another one, the <strong>Hastings Merchants Fastpitch team, <\/strong> the 2008 Michigan State Champs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Hastings-MI\/Hastings-Merchants-Mens-Fast-Pitch-Softball\/284837603218?v=app_2373072738#!\/pages\/Hastings-MI\/Hastings-Merchants-Mens-Fast-Pitch-Softball\/284837603218\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.hometeamsonline.com\/photos\/softball\/HASTINGSMERCHANTS\/homelogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-sjc1\/hs291.snc3\/28205_438800453218_284837603218_5619421_5551479_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Click photo or logo above to visit their Facebook page.  If you don&#8217;t see the photo, click the &#8220;Like&#8221; button and you will)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=d&#038;source=s_d&#038;saddr=Midland,+mi&#038;daddr=Hastings,+MI+to:Detroit,+MI&#038;geocode=FV6FmQIdVH36-ikXB9sDnIAhiDGQCrIi5INseg%3BFWy5igIdqJDq-imtQxSwez0YiDGGujkZn5uajw%3B&#038;hl=en&#038;mra=ls&#038;sll=43.13073,-84.76901&#038;sspn=1.114463,1.766052&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;z=8\"><strong>Hastings, Michigan<\/strong><\/a> is a couple hours west of Detroit, and a couple hours southwest of Midland, Michigan, host of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/pages\/2010-ISC-World-Tournament\/237379697685?ref=ts\"><strong>2010 ISC World Tournament<\/strong>.  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hastings is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Barry County. The population was 7,095 at the 2000 census.  It has been named &#8220;One of the best 100 small towns in America&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team members: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shawn Raymond, Bill Cobern, Dale Churchill, Steve Bourdo, Aaron Snider, Dustin Bensinger, Paul Smith, Nate Swift, Jon Lucas, Jerrod Currie, Matt Wright, Devin Milhiem.<\/p>\n<p>Nice field, right on the lake!  Anyone know the name of that field?<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net\/hs291.snc3\/28205_438800473218_284837603218_5619424_4515567_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another one, the Hastings Merchants Fastpitch team, the 2008 Michigan State Champs. (Click photo or logo above to visit their Facebook page. If you don&#8217;t see the photo, click the &#8220;Like&#8221; button and you will) Hastings, Michigan is a couple hours west of Detroit, and a couple hours southwest of Midland, Michigan, host of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047"}],"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=4047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}