{"id":86765,"date":"2016-05-10T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=86765&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2016-05-10T15:25:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T06:25:57","slug":"softbank-hawks-sarfate","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/softbank-hawks-sarfate\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank Hawks&#8217; Sarfate Invites Kumamoto Kids to Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 7 (Sat.), SoftBank Hawks pitcher Dennis Sarfate, in support of the Kyushu Christ Disaster Relief Center\u2019s activities, invited 70 Kumamoto earthquake victims to the Eagles\u2019 game: 35 children accompanied by 35 parents and volunteers. After arriving at the Yahuoku! Dome the children watched the players practice, and then met Sarfate and other key players such as Uchikawa and Yanagita. During the game, Sarfate commented that seeing them cheering and smiling in the stands gave him energy. The pitcher also said, \u201cEveryone in the Hawks team, my family and I are all thinking of Kumamoto. Let\u2019s overcome this difficult time together.\u201d Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softbankhawks.co.jp\/news\/detail\/13261.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks News, 5\/8<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86766\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86766\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/sarfate_kumamoto.jpg?resize=640%2C427\" alt=\"(C)SoftBank HAWKS\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/sarfate_kumamoto.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/sarfate_kumamoto.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-86766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(C)SoftBank HAWKS<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 7 (Sat.), SoftBank Hawks pitcher Dennis Sarfate, in support of the Kyushu Christ Disaster Relief Center\u2019s activities, invited 70 Kumamoto earthquake victims to the Eagles\u2019 game: 35 children accompanied by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26469,"featured_media":86766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-86765","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/86765","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\/26469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}