{"id":15560,"date":"2011-11-21T08:13:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T16:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=15560"},"modified":"2011-11-21T08:19:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T16:19:08","slug":"black-sox-ronas-decide-future-is-with-baseball-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=15560","title":{"rendered":"Black Sox Rona&#8217;s decide future is with baseball for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cap tip Blair Setford.<\/em><figure id=\"attachment_15557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15557\" style=\"width: 167px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/Black-Sox-Ronas-decide-future-is-with-baseball-for-now\/tabid\/415\/articleID\/233507\/Default.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/3news.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"3news\" width=\"167\" height=\"115\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15557\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for complete story.<\/figcaption><\/figure><em>By Ashlee Tulloch<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Blacksox will be without vice captain Brad Rona and son Pita for the foreseeable future.  The pair decided their future is in baseball after a crisis meeting with Blacksox management tonight.  <\/p>\n<p>After an hour and a half of deliberating a decision was made.<br \/>\n\u201cIn the interest of both Brad and his son Pita and us, that Brad and Pita are going to put all their energy enthusiasm, passion and skill into baseball and we totally support that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the outcome comes as a surprise after comments Brad Rona made earlier today.<br \/>\nAll came to a head because of a clash in scheduling.<\/p>\n<p>But for the Rona\u2019s it\u2019s about persuing a dream for both Brad and 17-year-old son Pita.<\/p>\n<p>And after 11 years involvement with the Black Sox it will not be an easy departure.<\/p>\n<p>But for now this partnership will part ways.<br \/>\nBen Enoka is the third person involved in this clash of codes and is still in discussions with a decision hoping to be made in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/Black-Sox-Ronas-decide-future-is-with-baseball-for-now\/tabid\/415\/articleID\/233507\/Default.aspx\">Click here to continue reading.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cap tip Blair Setford.By Ashlee Tulloch The Blacksox will be without vice captain Brad Rona and son Pita for the foreseeable future. The pair decided their future is in baseball after a crisis meeting with Blacksox management tonight. After an hour and a half of deliberating a decision was made. \u201cIn the interest of both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15557,"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-15560","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\/15560","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=15560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15563,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560\/revisions\/15563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}