{"id":24027,"date":"2014-07-29T13:41:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T20:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=24027"},"modified":"2014-07-29T13:42:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T20:42:07","slug":"isf-making-pitch-for-museum-hall-of-fame-at-plant-city-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=24027","title":{"rendered":"ISF making pitch for museum, hall of fame at Plant City Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tbo.com\/plant-city\/softball-federation-making-pitch-for-museum-hall-of-fame-at-plant-city-stadium-20140729\/\">From the Plant City Courier\/Tampa Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_17268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17268\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tbo.com\/plant-city\/softball-federation-making-pitch-for-museum-hall-of-fame-at-plant-city-stadium-20140729\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ISF.logo_-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"Click logo to view original news story at the Plant City Courier.\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ISF.logo_-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ISF.logo_.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo to view original news story at the Plant City Courier.<\/figcaption><\/figure>PLANT CITY \u2013 It has been years in the making, but a permanent tribute to the sport of softball may finally be rounding third base.<\/p>\n<p>The International Softball Federation has talked about creating a hall of fame and museum ever since it moved to the Plant City Stadium complex in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>A series of setbacks, including the economic downturn and the exclusion of softball from the Olympics, stalled the project.<\/p>\n<p>Fundraising is now under way, and federation Honorary President Don Porter has been presenting artists renderings and other plans to government and business groups.<\/p>\n<p>Porter thinks the dream is finally coming true. He hopes to open the doors in mid-2015.  <a href=\"http:\/\/tbo.com\/plant-city\/softball-federation-making-pitch-for-museum-hall-of-fame-at-plant-city-stadium-20140729\/\">Click here to continue reading at the Plant City Courier.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Plant City Courier\/Tampa Tribune PLANT CITY \u2013 It has been years in the making, but a permanent tribute to the sport of softball may finally be rounding third base. The International Softball Federation has talked about creating a hall of fame and museum ever since it moved to the Plant City Stadium complex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17268,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-isf","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24027","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=24027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24029,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24027\/revisions\/24029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}