{"id":21418,"date":"2013-07-07T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T02:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=21418"},"modified":"2013-07-07T19:51:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T02:51:11","slug":"softball-info-for-19th-world-maccabiah-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=21418","title":{"rendered":"Softball Info for 19th World Maccabiah Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5879\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.constantcontact.com\/fs112\/1103759777829\/archive\/1113857475851.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/macabbi.sports.4.israel-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Click for official page.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5879\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for official page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Between the US and Canada, there will be a total of 6 fastpitch softball teams (Mens Open; Mens 35-Over Masters; and Women&#8217;s Open) competing for softball medals in Israel. This page below has a link to where anyone can sign up for daily email updates on News and Scores from the Maccabi USA Teams. <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.constantcontact.com\/fs112\/1103759777829\/archive\/1113857475851.html\">Click here for more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three interesting World Maccabiah Games and Maccabi USA Factoids: <\/p>\n<p>* The World Maccabiah Games are the 3rd largest sporting event in the world, with over 8,500 athletes competing from 80 countries. <\/p>\n<p>* The 2013 Maccabi USA Contingency of 1,165 American athletes, coaches, and staff will be the largest USA team to ever travel abroad to represent our country in any previous multi-sport competition. including the Olympic Games.  <\/p>\n<p>* The Opening Ceremonies will be held at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem in front of 40,000 spectators on the evening of Thursday July 18th. Israel is 7 hours ahead of EST; 8 hours ahead of CST; and 10 hours ahead of PST.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between the US and Canada, there will be a total of 6 fastpitch softball teams (Mens Open; Mens 35-Over Masters; and Women&#8217;s Open) competing for softball medals in Israel. This page below has a link to where anyone can sign up for daily email updates on News and Scores from the Maccabi USA Teams. Click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5879,"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":[9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-tournaments","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21418","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=21418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21420,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21418\/revisions\/21420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}