{"id":21215,"date":"2013-06-16T08:52:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T15:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=21215"},"modified":"2013-06-16T09:40:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T16:40:50","slug":"of-fathers-and-fastpitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=21215","title":{"rendered":"Of Fathers and Fastpitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/father.and_.son_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/father.and_.son_.jpg\" alt=\"father.and.son\" width=\"205\" height=\"385\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21216\" \/><\/a>How many of us are connected to fastpitch because of our fathers? Most I would imagine. For me, it was my father, Harry Flanagan, that first showed me that you could throw a ball underhand as fast as you could overhand.  Raising a family with seven children, he didn&#8217;t have much time to play himself, at least as an adult when I knew him.  But those backyard pitching sessions of catch proved to be a springboard to a lifetime of enjoyment of the game.  As I peruse Facebook this morning, it is easy to see that I have plenty of company, players who learned of and about the game of fastpitch from their fathers.  <\/p>\n<p>Happy Father&#8217;s Day to all of you remembering your fathers today, and of course, to those of you being celebrated as fathers.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many of us are connected to fastpitch because of our fathers? Most I would imagine. For me, it was my father, Harry Flanagan, that first showed me that you could throw a ball underhand as fast as you could overhand. Raising a family with seven children, he didn&#8217;t have much time to play himself, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21215","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=21215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21234,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21215\/revisions\/21234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}