{"id":26211,"date":"2015-05-11T15:19:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T22:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=26211"},"modified":"2015-05-11T15:21:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T22:21:21","slug":"tokyo-opens-bidding-for-sports-to-be-added-to-2020-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=26211","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo opens bidding for sports to be added to 2020 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/tokyo-weighing-sports-2020-summer-olympics-081813149.html\" target=\"_blank\">From Yahoo News:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOKYO (AP) \u2014 Japanese Olympic organizers opened the application process Monday for sports hoping to be added to the 2020 Tokyo Games.<\/p>\n<p>The Tokyo organizing committee launched a two-stage procedure that gives the host city a chance to add one or more sports to the program.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"pullquote\">&#8220;Baseball and softball, which have been off the Olympic program since the 2008 Beijing Games, are considered favorites because of their popularity in Japan.&#8221;  <\/span> Other possibilities include squash, karate, skateboarding and surfing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/tokyo-weighing-sports-2020-summer-olympics-081813149.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the entire story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Yahoo News: TOKYO (AP) \u2014 Japanese Olympic organizers opened the application process Monday for sports hoping to be added to the 2020 Tokyo Games. The Tokyo organizing committee launched a two-stage procedure that gives the host city a chance to add one or more sports to the program. &#8220;Baseball and softball, which have been [&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":[8,9],"tags":[158],"class_list":{"0":"post-26211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"category-international","8":"tag-olympics","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26211","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=26211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26213,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26211\/revisions\/26213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}