{"id":15339,"date":"2011-10-28T10:16:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=15339"},"modified":"2011-10-28T10:17:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:17:01","slug":"nz-team-lure-for-campbell-makea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=15339","title":{"rendered":"NZ team lure for Campbell Makea"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12671\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12671\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/sport\/softball\/184352\/softball-nz-team-lure-makea\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/otago-150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"otago 150\" width=\"150\" height=\"57\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12671\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for complete story at the Otago Daily Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New Zealand men&#8217;s softball team member Campbell Makea is briefly back in Dunedin. <\/p>\n<p>A Black Sox scarfie will have a few final swings before heading home.<br \/>\nNew Zealand softball catcher Campbell Makea has played for Dunedin club Ellis Park during the last month.<\/p>\n<p>Makea will have his final hits in the local competition today then next Saturday before heading back to Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old will complete his third year of physiotherapy study next week, and, following celebrations, will drive to Wellington to play for his home club, Poneke-Kilbirnie.<\/p>\n<p>Softball New Zealand cleared the University of Otago student to make a six-week cameo for Ellis Park in the Dunedin premier competition.<\/p>\n<p>Although Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch were the traditional softball powerhouses, he said the Dunedin league was decent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s good to be down here, to get amongst it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The consistent hitter has enjoyed his time studying in the city since 2009.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"pullquote\"> &#8220;The Dunedin lifestyle, the whole atmosphere &#8211; I&#8217;ve loved every minute of it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Leith St resident made the Black Sox last year and has made the squad to play Australia in Canberra next month.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/sport\/softball\/184352\/softball-nz-team-lure-makea\">Click here to continue reading.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand men&#8217;s softball team member Campbell Makea is briefly back in Dunedin. A Black Sox scarfie will have a few final swings before heading home. New Zealand softball catcher Campbell Makea has played for Dunedin club Ellis Park during the last month. Makea will have his final hits in the local competition today then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12671,"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":[9,35,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-oceania","9":"category-players","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15339","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=15339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15341,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15339\/revisions\/15341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}