{"id":11706,"date":"2011-06-10T14:45:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T21:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=11706"},"modified":"2011-06-13T08:07:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T15:07:33","slug":"passing-of-ken-vierling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=11706","title":{"rendered":"Passing of Ken Vierling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_11741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11741\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Caring-Bridge.150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Caring-Bridge.150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Caring Bridge.150\" width=\"150\" height=\"55\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11741\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for Ken's Caring Bridge page<\/figcaption><\/figure>We regret to report the passing of our friend Ken Vierling this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>For those who may not have known Ken, he was the ISC II Umpire in chief in 2008 at Appleton, Wisconsin, but was badly injured and paralyzed in an auto accident in April 2009, in Colorado on his way to Las Vegas for a bowling tournament.  <\/p>\n<p>His moniker &#8220;Comic dude&#8221; reflected his comedic nature his friends knew so well.  His passing comes after battling to recover for more than two years, during which time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=4713\">he was honored by selection to the Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame.<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?s=vierling\">Click here for our earlier posts about Ken.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Funeral services likely for Wednesday, but we&#8217;ll update soon when we hear for sure.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7700\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Ken-Vierling-CD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Ken-Vierling-CD-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ken Vierling CD\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7700\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Vierling <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We regret to report the passing of our friend Ken Vierling this afternoon. For those who may not have known Ken, he was the ISC II Umpire in chief in 2008 at Appleton, Wisconsin, but was badly injured and paralyzed in an auto accident in April 2009, in Colorado on his way to Las Vegas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-people","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11706"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11743,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706\/revisions\/11743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}