{"id":14534,"date":"2011-09-14T16:41:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T23:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=14534"},"modified":"2011-09-14T22:56:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T05:56:49","slug":"the-farm-tavern%e2%80%99s-rod-peterson-he%e2%80%99s-a-good-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=14534","title":{"rendered":"The Farm Tavern\u2019s Rod Peterson, he\u2019s a good farmer (Otto in Focus)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> Don&#8217;t miss this feature story by Bob Otto.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bobby says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Today is Rod Peterson&#8217;s birthday (an age he adamantly refused to divulge, actually fibbed about), so I gave him a call and we talked fastpitch about the good old days of his Farm Tavern team. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_9988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9988\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Rod-Peterson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Rod-Peterson.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rod Peterson\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9988\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rod Peterson<\/figcaption><\/figure><a href=\"The Farm Tavern\u2019s Rod Peterson, he\u2019s a good farmer\">From Bob Otto\/Otto in Focus<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMADISON, WI &#8211; Rod Peterson sponsored and managed the Farm Tavern men\u2019s fastpitch softball team from 1975 to 2008. <span class=\"pullquote\">He didn\u2019t saddle his ballplayers with long list of rules \u2013 just one: Be a team player. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Players who could abide by that simple rule received the ultimate compliment from Peterson, who farms 800 acres of corn and soybeans near Madison: that of, \u201che\u2019s a good farmer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we had a bad apple, we got rid of him,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cGuys had to fit in. Our personalities all flowed together. We had quite a few players who were good farmers.\u201d&#8230;  <a href=\"http:\/\/ottoinfocus.com\/?p=6014#more-6014\">Click here to continue reading at Otto in Focus.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: Don&#8217;t miss this feature story by Bob Otto. Bobby says: Today is Rod Peterson&#8217;s birthday (an age he adamantly refused to divulge, actually fibbed about), so I gave him a call and we talked fastpitch about the good old days of his Farm Tavern team. From Bob Otto\/Otto in Focus MADISON, WI &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9988,"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-14534","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\/14534","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=14534"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14552,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14534\/revisions\/14552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}