{"id":4622,"date":"2010-08-30T21:14:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T04:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2010-08-30T21:15:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T04:15:10","slug":"fastpitch-tourney-underway-in-charlottetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4622","title":{"rendered":"Fastpitch tourney underway in Charlottetown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/prince-edward-island\/story\/2010\/08\/30\/pei-national-fastpitch-584.html\"><strong>From CBC News:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nThe Senior Men&#8217;s National Fastpitch Championships kicked off Sunday in Charlottetown.<\/p>\n<p>Ten teams from Atlantic Canada, Ontario and Quebec are here for the week-long tournament.<\/p>\n<p>That translates to about 500 people in the city, said Wayne Long, the city&#8217;s events coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an event that brings with it a good group of people with disposable income for a good length of stay,&#8221; said Long, adding that the economic impact could reach up to $500,000.<\/p>\n<p>The city paid $15,000 to bring the tournament here.<\/p>\n<p>The event is happening every day this week at the Central Field Complex located at Burns Avenue and North River Road.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament wraps up with the championship game next Sunday.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/prince-edward-island\/story\/2010\/08\/30\/pei-national-fastpitch-584.html#ixzz0y9ZzVPBP\"><br \/>\n<strong>Read more: <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CBC News: The Senior Men&#8217;s National Fastpitch Championships kicked off Sunday in Charlottetown. Ten teams from Atlantic Canada, Ontario and Quebec are here for the week-long tournament. That translates to about 500 people in the city, said Wayne Long, the city&#8217;s events coordinator. &#8220;This is an event that brings with it a good group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622"}],"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=4622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}