{"id":318,"date":"2008-02-22T22:08:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T21:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=318"},"modified":"2009-09-26T11:32:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T10:32:55","slug":"bbf-on-wbc-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"BBF on WBC 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who haven&#8217;t yet seen it, the British Baseball Federation has issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballsoftballuk.com\/gen_insert.php?from_level3=Articles&amp;db_story=2282&amp;this_page=baseballnews&amp;back=Current++News\">response<\/a> to the news that the Great Britain team has been overlooked\u00c2\u00a0for the 2009 World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p>As noted here earlier in the week, the BBF had contacted MLB about\u00c2\u00a0the possibility of Team GB taking the second European spot in the tournament, but the organizers decided to keep the same line-up as the &#8217;06 competition\u00c2\u00a0instead,\u00c2\u00a0resulting in Italy and the Netherlands being the Euro representatives in MLB&#8217;s flagship international event.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who haven&#8217;t yet seen it, the British Baseball Federation has issued a response to the news that the Great Britain team has been overlooked\u00c2\u00a0for the 2009 World Baseball Classic. As noted here earlier in the week, the BBF had contacted MLB about\u00c2\u00a0the possibility of Team GB taking the second European spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-baseball-2","category-international-baseball-2","tag-world-baseball-classic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4475,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/4475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}