{"id":21664,"date":"2013-08-01T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T19:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=21664"},"modified":"2013-08-01T12:42:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T19:42:13","slug":"dodgers-catcher-ryan-merriman-nabs-spot-on-australian-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=21664","title":{"rendered":"Merriman picks up spot in Australian open softball squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_21665\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21665\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qt.com.au\/news\/toowoomba-softball-ryan-merriman-queensland\/1967810\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/qt-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Click logo for original news story and photo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-21665\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for original news story and photo<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<strong>Merriman picks up spot in Australian open softball <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The Queensland Times<\/em><br \/>\nTOOWOOMBA&#8217;S Ryan Merriman has enhanced his standing as one of Australia&#8217;s top softball prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Merriman has been named in a 30-man Australian open squad long with four other Queenslanders.<\/p>\n<p>It was only earlier this year that the Dodgers catcher was named most valuable player at the Australian Under 19 Men&#8217;s Championship making it a short time for him to break into the open Australian Steelers squad.<\/p>\n<p>Merriman earned selection by highlighting his talent and potential with strong performances at the South Brisbane Classic tournament at Carina in June.<\/p>\n<p>The selection follows on from Merriman impressing at the 2012 International Youth Cup, where he picked up the Best Batter award.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Bailey, Shaun Goffer and Andy Blackshaw, who have all played in the Toowoomba Softball A grade competition in the past few years are other Queensland players to make the Australian squad along with Julian Jemmott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merriman picks up spot in Australian open softball The Queensland Times TOOWOOMBA&#8217;S Ryan Merriman has enhanced his standing as one of Australia&#8217;s top softball prospects. Merriman has been named in a 30-man Australian open squad long with four other Queenslanders. It was only earlier this year that the Dodgers catcher was named most valuable player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21665,"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":[12,35,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-isf","8":"category-oceania","9":"category-players","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664","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=21664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21669,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664\/revisions\/21669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}