{"id":83354,"date":"2012-09-27T12:15:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T03:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=28685"},"modified":"2016-04-01T03:08:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:08:08","slug":"fukuoka-to-host-2013-world-baseball-classic-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-to-host-2013-world-baseball-classic-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka to Host 2013 World Baseball Classic Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka City\u2019s Fukuoka Dome will be the stage of Pool A\u2019s first-round games in the 2013 World Baseball Classic (WBC) qualifier, Mar 2~6. Three of the four teams have been announced for Pool A. They are; Japan, Cuba and China. The fourth country is yet be decided. The 2013 WBC will see 28 teams enter- up from 16 in the 2006 and 2009. The first-round games will be in a round-robin format, with the second-round being double elimination. Tokyo will be one of the locations for second-round games. The semi-finals and final will take place in San Francisco, USA.  Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20120925&#038;content_id=38996910&#038;vkey=news_mlb&#038;c_id=mlb \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20120925&#038;content_id=38996910&#038;vkey=news_mlb&#038;c_id=mlb <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/6504299897_d9fd099a8d_z.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/6504299897_d9fd099a8d_z.jpg?resize=640%2C426\" alt=\"\" title=\"6504299897_d9fd099a8d_z\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/6504299897_d9fd099a8d_z.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/6504299897_d9fd099a8d_z.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka City\u2019s Fukuoka Dome will be the stage of Pool A\u2019s first-round games in the 2013 World Baseball Classic (WBC) qualifier, Mar 2~6. Three of the four teams have been announced for Pool A. They are; Japan, Cuba and China. The fourth country is yet be decided. The 2013 WBC will see 28 teams enter- up from 16 in the 2006 and 2009. The first-round games will be in a round-robin format, with the second-round being double elimination. Tokyo will be one of the locations for second-round games. The semi-finals and final will take place in San Francisco, USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":28686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-83354","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-sports","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/83354","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\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}