{"id":9624,"date":"2011-04-06T09:01:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T16:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=9624"},"modified":"2011-04-06T09:01:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T16:01:33","slug":"good-news-call-took-young-raemaki-by-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=9624","title":{"rendered":"Good news call took young Raemaki by surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9625\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9625\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/dominion-post\/wellington\/college-sport\/4851197\/Good-news-call-took-Raemaki-by-surprise\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Domininion-Post-NZ.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Domininion Post NZ\" width=\"160\" height=\"90\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9625\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for original news story at The Dominion Post.<\/figcaption><\/figure>When Jerome Raemaki received a telephone call while he was at training confirming selection for the national team, it was the last thing he was expecting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had Black Sox squad training that night so I thought he [Black Sox manager, Doug Golightly] was checking up to see how things were going with that,&#8221; Raemaki said.<\/p>\n<p>However, last week&#8217;s call from Golightly was to tell Raemaki, 16, that he had made the team for the June-July North America tour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was quite shocked,&#8221; Raemaki said.<\/p>\n<p>However, he was not the only one shocked to hear the news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dad couldn&#8217;t believe it either. I waited until I got home from training to tell him. I think he was more excited than me.&#8221;   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/dominion-post\/wellington\/college-sport\/4851197\/Good-news-call-took-Raemaki-by-surprise\">Click here to read the complete story at the New Zealand&#8217;s Dominion Post<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5012464944583968\";\n\/* Ballparkradio Main *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2176237682\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jerome Raemaki received a telephone call while he was at training confirming selection for the national team, it was the last thing he was expecting. &#8220;We had Black Sox squad training that night so I thought he [Black Sox manager, Doug Golightly] was checking up to see how things were going with that,&#8221; Raemaki [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9625,"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":[9,12,27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-isf","9":"category-youth","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624","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=9624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9626,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions\/9626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}