{"id":12457,"date":"2011-12-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.comnews\/saibu-gas-to-sponsor-baseball-team\/"},"modified":"2011-12-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T00:00:00","slug":"saibu-gas-to-sponsor-baseball-team","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/saibu-gas-to-sponsor-baseball-team\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Saibu Gas to Sponsor Baseball Team <!--:--><!--:ja-->Sorry, but we are not able to display what you have requested.<!--:--><!--:ko-->Sorry, but we are not able to display what you have requested.<!--:--><!--:zh-->Sorry, but we are not able to display what you have requested.<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fukuoka City-based gas company Saibu Gas announced it will sponsor a team in the Japan Amateur Baseball Association starting in April. They already have begun scouting for players in the Kyushu region, and will apply for membership in the association next January. The company says its objective is to contribute to the region by serving as a baseball outlet for regional student athletes. This move is noteworthy because other companies are shutting down their teams due to the poor economy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><!--:ja--><!--:--><!--:ko--><!--:--><!--:zh--><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka City-based gas company Saibu Gas announced it will sponsor a team in the Japan Amateur Baseball Association starting in April. They already have begun scouting for players in the Kyushu region, and will apply for membership in the association next January. The company says its objective is to contribute to the region by serving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-12457","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}