{"id":22972,"date":"2014-04-10T12:51:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T19:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=22972"},"modified":"2014-04-10T12:51:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T19:51:47","slug":"17-year-old-australian-pitching-sensation-headed-to-whitehorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=22972","title":{"rendered":"17 year old Australian pitching sensation headed to Whitehorse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.camdenadvertiser.com.au\/story\/2205139\/champ-to-pitch-for-australia\/?cs=12\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/aussie-colts-300x158.png\" alt=\"aussie colts\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/aussie-colts-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/aussie-colts.png 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Teenage softballer Luke Ollerenshaw has reached new heights in his sporting career by being selected to play for Australia in this year&#8217;s International Softball Federation Junior Men&#8217;s World Softball Championship.<\/p>\n<p>As a pitcher, Luke is hoping his right arm will deliver crushing blows for the Aussie Colts against some of the world&#8217;s best junior teams at the championships in Yukon, Canada, from July 11 to 20.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old, who was named best pitcher when part of last year&#8217;s Australian under-19 development squad, said his hard work had paid off and he felt privileged to represent Australia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.camdenadvertiser.com.au\/story\/2205139\/champ-to-pitch-for-australia\/?cs=12\">Click here to read the complete story and see photo at the Camden-Narellan Advertiser.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenage softballer Luke Ollerenshaw has reached new heights in his sporting career by being selected to play for Australia in this year&#8217;s International Softball Federation Junior Men&#8217;s World Softball Championship. As a pitcher, Luke is hoping his right arm will deliver crushing blows for the Aussie Colts against some of the world&#8217;s best junior teams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22973,"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":[12,35,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22972","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":"category-youth","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22972","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=22972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22974,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22972\/revisions\/22974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}