{"id":24997,"date":"2014-12-11T08:24:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T16:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=24997"},"modified":"2014-12-11T08:26:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T16:26:56","slug":"video-black-sox-prepare-for-oceania-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=24997","title":{"rendered":"Video: New Zealand Black Sox prepare for Oceania qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Video interview with Mark Sorenson and Nathan Nukunuku<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/sport\/video-black-sox-prepare-for-oceania-qualifiers-2014121109#axzz3LYw0tOi2\">From 3 News New Zealand<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNew Zealand Softball is eyeing a seventh World Title, but first they have to negotiate the Oceania qualifying series this weekend in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Sox are defending world champions but coach Mark Sorensen says they aren&#8217;t getting ahead of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s strange I suppose for sports that have defending world champs qualify,&#8221; he said on Firstline.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a critical start for us in terms of making a run at the seventh title.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In order for us to do it we have to get through the qualifying series with Australia and Samoa, and that&#8217;s really got to be our prime focus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/sport\/video-black-sox-prepare-for-oceania-qualifiers-2014121109#axzz3LYw0tOi2\">To read complete story and view video, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video interview with Mark Sorenson and Nathan Nukunuku From 3 News New Zealand New Zealand Softball is eyeing a seventh World Title, but first they have to negotiate the Oceania qualifying series this weekend in Auckland. The Black Sox are defending world champions but coach Mark Sorensen says they aren&#8217;t getting ahead of themselves. &#8220;It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[9,35,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-international","7":"category-oceania","8":"category-videos","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24997","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=24997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25000,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24997\/revisions\/25000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}