{"id":23272,"date":"2014-05-29T08:18:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T15:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=23272"},"modified":"2015-04-15T15:02:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T22:02:53","slug":"isc-mourns-loss-of-dave-blackburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=23272","title":{"rendered":"ISC Mourns Loss of Dave Blackburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/isclogo.150x116.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/isclogo.150x116.gif\" alt=\"isclogo.150x116\" width=\"150\" height=\"116\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7808\" \/><\/a>Our sincere condolences to the Family, Friends, and Colleagues  of Dave Blackburn, of Venice, California, who passed away during the evening  of Wednesday May 28, 2014<\/p>\n<p>We, The International Softball Congress have lost a valuable team member who has contributed not only on the field as a regular on the playing surface but was  also the driving force behind the network streaming  of Internet Broadcasting, originally  only audio, but was instrumental in adding the video side of the production to greatly enhance the popularity of Mens Fastpitch across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Dave was inducted into the International Softball Congress Hall of Fame in 2010 and was an active commissioner for the ISC in US West Division<\/p>\n<p>Funeral Details have not been finalized as of this press release.<\/p>\n<p>The International Softball Congress as a whole mourns this  tremendous loss ,You will be missed and will be in our thought and prayers<br \/>\nIn the days going forward.<\/p>\n<p>RIP \u2013 Dave Blackburn<\/p>\n<p>Joe Todd<br \/>\nISC VP Communications<br \/>\nIngersoll, Ontario<br \/>\nFtode739 [at] rogers.com<\/p>\n<p>p.s. on a personal note, Dave was in the booth for my initial  broadcast in Kimberley, Wisconsin in 2003 as our behind the scenes person,  keeping an eye on my sound levels and encouraging me to proceed with confidence, a piece of advice  that I will never forget, -Thank You Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our sincere condolences to the Family, Friends, and Colleagues of Dave Blackburn, of Venice, California, who passed away during the evening of Wednesday May 28, 2014 We, The International Softball Congress have lost a valuable team member who has contributed not only on the field as a regular on the playing surface but was also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7808,"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":[60,10,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-inmemoriam","8":"category-isc","9":"category-photos","10":"category-players","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23272","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=23272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23274,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23272\/revisions\/23274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}